The militia and the right to arms, or, How the second amendment fell silent, H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-316) and index

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Contents: The gun in the American self-portrait -- The militia ideal in the American revolutionary era -- Madisonian structuralism: the place of the militia in the new American science of government -- The decay of the old militia, 1789-1840 -- The era of the volunteers, 1840-1903 -- The United States Army and the United States Army National Guard in the twentieth century -- Text and context -- Other theories of meaning considered -- The Emerson case

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