The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment
Taming Political Violence in a Constitutional Republic
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
416 pages
978-0-300-12755-3 (ISBN)
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David C. Williams
The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment
Taming Political Violence in a Constitutional Republic
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01/2003
Yale University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Framers' Constitution
- 1 The Background of the Framers' Thinking
- 2 The History of the Second Amendment
- 3 The Original Legal Meaning of the Second Amendment and the Military Provisions of the Constitution
- Part II. The Mythic Second Amendment Today
- 4 Antirevolutionists
- 5 Libertarians and Populists
- 6 The Militia Movement's Theory of the Second Amendment
- 7 Outgroups and the Second Amendment
- Part III. Reconstructing a Constitutional Organization of Violence
- 8 The Silent Crisis
- 9 Redeeming the People
- Notes
- Index
