Description |
xiv, 255 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Patriots' Day -- Ratification -- The tub to the whale -- Arkansas toothpicks, Beecher's bibles, and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Revolt at Cincinnati -- Contest for the Constitution -- The road to Heller -- From Heller to Sandy Hook -- Flying blind -- "The right of the people.". |
Summary |
"By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment -- History.
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Firearms -- Law and legislation -- History.
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Constitutional history.
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ISBN |
9781476747446 |
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147674744X |
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