The positive second amendment : rights, regulation, and the future of Heller /
"The Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misconceptions about the amendment -- what it forbids, what it permits, how it functions as law - distort the gun debate and America's constitutional culture...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on civil rights and civil liberties
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the gun debate and the Constitution
- Gun rights and regulation in American history
- Militias, private purposes, and the road to Heller
- Understanding Heller
- Heller's aftermath : "a vast terra incognita"
- The constitutional grammar of the Second Amendment
- What is the Second Amendment for?
- Second Amendment law and the gun debate