03690cam a2200409 i 4500999001900000003000800019005001700027007000300044008004100047020002900088020002600117040001800143041000800161042000800169043001200177050002400189082001700213084004500230100003800275245006000313250004600373264004100419300002500460336002600485337002800511338002700539500028200566504005100848520182600899520021502725610005902940650005902999650004303058906004503101942001203146952012203158  c112098d112098BJBSDDR20230411090058.0ta140107s2014    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a9781476747446 (hardback)  a9781476747460 (ebook)  aDLCbengcDLC  aspa  apcc  an-us---00aKF 3941bW164s 201400a344.7305223  aHIS036000aLAW060000aLAW0180002bisacsh1 aWaldman, Michael,d1960-eauthor.14aThe Second Amendment :ba biography /cMichael Waldman.  aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 1aNew York :bSimon & Schuster,c2014.  axiv, 255 p. ;c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  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."  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  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.  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"--cProvided by publisher.10aUnited States.tConstitution.n2nd AmendmentxHistory. 0aFirearmsxLaw and legislationzUnited StatesxHistory. 0aConstitutional historyzUnited States.  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2lcccBK  001040708CSaBJBbBJBcAPTd2019-02-18l0oKF 3941 W164s 2014p00000126336r2019-02-18 00:00:00t1w2019-02-18yBK