Well Regulated Militia.....the book!!

FINALLY  THE  BOOK  I  ORDERED  FROM  THE  USA  HAS  ARRIVED.

IT  IS  THE  ANSWER  TO  THE  SECOND  AMENDMENT  OF  THE  USA  CONSTITUTION.

THE  FRONT  COVER:

A  WELL  REGULATED  MILITIA:  The Founding Fathers  and  the  Origins  of  Gun  Control  in  America.

by  Saul  Cornell

ON THE BACK WE READ:

WINNER OF THE LANGUM ORIZE IN AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY/LEGAL BIOGRAOHY

"IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING" -- Cass R. Sunstein. The New Republic

"With this book Saul Cornell establishes himself as a leading interpreter of the Second Amendment, and teaches us valuable lessons not only about gun control and the militia, but about the nature of American republican government itself."  --  Stephen Presser,  Northwestern University School of Law.

Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading constitutional historian, shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but as a civic right -- an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could participate in a well-regulated militia...... The modern debate, Cornell reveals, has its roots in the nineteenth century, during America's first and now largely forgotten gun violence crisis.......

Saul Cornell is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and Director of the Second Amendment Research Center as the John Glenn Institute. An authority on constitutional history and especially on the Second Amendment, he is the author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America and editor of Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?


INSIDE  WE  READ:

Praise for

A Well-Regulated Militia:

The Founding Fathers and the Origins

of Gun Control in America

"This intelligent, carefully rendered history of gun policy in the United States ... is challenging but essential reading for scholars, specialized undergraduates, and readers interested in law, crirninal justice, and public affairs."

—Library Journal

"If proof were still needed that the study of the Second Amendment remains a fruitful source of inquiry, Saul Cornell's new book provides it. Crisply written and vigorously argued, A Well-Regulated Militia advances an often hackneyed debate by looking beyond the original concerns of the Revolutionary era. Cornell concisely demonstrates why so many of the contemporary fictions swirling around the meaning of this vexed clause depart from its real history."

—Jack Rakove, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Original Meanings

"Saul Cornell provides a wonderful, original treatment of a much discussed subject. Based on a meticulous review of American history, Cornell shows that both sides of the debate over the Second Amendment are mistaken. This is a must-read."

—Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke University School of Law

"Jettisoning the rancorous partisanship and historical distortions of both advocates and opponents of gun control, Cornell recovers the lost civic dimension of the constitutional right to bear arms. The point of departure for any future, historically informed discussion of this most

controversial amendment, A Well-Regulated Militia clears the way for fresh and constructive thinking about the rights and responsibilities of gun ownership in America today."

—Peter S. Onuf, author ofJefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood

"A provocative alternative in the debate over the historical meaning of the Second Amendment. Anyone interested in how the right to bear arms was thought about in the early republic will need to take this book into account."

—Keith E. Whittington, author of Constitutional Interpretation

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I  LOOK  FORWARD  TO  READING  THIS  BOOK 

AND  COMMENTING  ON  ITS  CHAPTERS .