000706115 000__ 03375cam\a2200385\i\4500 000706115 001__ 706115 000706115 005__ 20210515095722.0 000706115 008__ 140107s2014\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000706115 010__ $$a 2013051339 000706115 020__ $$a9781476747446$$qhardcover 000706115 020__ $$a147674744X$$qhardcover 000706115 020__ $$a9781476747453$$qtrade paperback 000706115 020__ $$a1476747458$$qtrade paperback 000706115 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn863033365 000706115 035__ $$a706115 000706115 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dOCLCO$$dIEB$$dABG$$dIXA 000706115 042__ $$apcc 000706115 043__ $$an-us--- 000706115 049__ $$aISEA 000706115 05000 $$aKF3941$$b.W35 2014 000706115 08200 $$a344.7305/33$$223 000706115 1001_ $$aWaldman, Michael,$$d1960-$$eauthor. 000706115 24514 $$aThe Second Amendment :$$ba biography /$$cMichael Waldman. 000706115 250__ $$aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 000706115 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$c2014. 000706115 300__ $$axiv, 255 pages ;$$c25 cm 000706115 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000706115 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000706115 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000706115 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000706115 5050_ $$aPatriots' Day -- Ratification -- The tub to the whale -- Arkansas toothpicks, Beecher's bibles, and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Revolt at Cincinnati -- Contest for the Constitution -- The road to Heller -- From Heller to Sandy Hook -- Flying blind -- "The right of the people." 000706115 520__ $$a"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. At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult men--who were required to own a gun to serve. Waldman recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the amendment from its inception to the present. As the country spread to the Western frontier, violence spread too. But through it all, gun control was abundant. In the 20th century, with Prohibition and gangsterism, the first federal control laws were passed. In all four separate times the Supreme Court ruled against a constitutional right to own a gun. The present debate picked up in the 1970s--part of a backlash to the liberal 1960s and a resurgence of libertarianism. A newly radicalized NRA entered the campaign to oppose gun control and elevate the status of an obscure constitutional provision. In 2008, in a case that reached the Court after a focused drive by conservative lawyers, the US Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects an individual right to gun ownership. Famous for his theory of "originalism," Justice Antonin Scalia twisted it in this instance to base his argument on contemporary conditions. In The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman shows that our view of the amendment is set, at each stage, not by a pristine constitutional text, but by the push and pull, the rough and tumble of political advocacy and public agitation"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000706115 61010 $$aUnited States.$$tConstitution.$$n2nd Amendment$$xHistory. 000706115 650_0 $$aFirearms$$xLaw and legislation$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000706115 650_0 $$aConstitutional history$$zUnited States. 000706115 85200 $$bgen$$hKF3941$$i.W35$$i2014 000706115 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:706115$$pGLOBAL_SET 000706115 980__ $$aBIB 000706115 980__ $$aBOOK