Originally published by Oxford University Press, 2006.
Preface
Introduction
ch. 1. English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America
ch. 2. A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment
ch. 3. "The true palladium of liberty" : Federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment
ch. 4. Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms
ch. 5. Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns
ch. 6. Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate
Conclusion : A new paradigm for the Second Amendment
Notes
Index.
A well-regulated militia : the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America by Saul Cornell. ISBN 9780195341034. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.