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The militia and the right to arms, or, How the second amendment fell silent

Argues the Amendment has nothing to contribute to debates over private access to firearms. This title demonstrates that the militia envisioned by the framers of the Bill of Rights in 1789 has long since disappeared from the American scene, leaving no lineal descendants.
Print Book, English, 2002
Duke University Press, Durham, 2002
x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780822330318, 9780822330172, 0822330318, 0822330172
50782360
The gun in the American self-portrait
The militia ideal in the American revolutionary era
Madisonian structuralism: the place of the militia in the new American science of government
The decay of the old militia, 1789-1840
The era of the volunteers, 1840-1903
The United States army and the United States Army National Guard in the twentieth century
Text and context
Other theories of meaning considered
The Emerson case