The Militia and the Right to Arms - Or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent

"Uviller and Merkel offer a very valuable legal history of the militia and its relationship to the standing army. That history is the heart of this book, as their reading of the Second Amendment grows directly out of it. I have read accounts of these events dozens of times, but this one may be the best of all. It covers an enormous amount of ground in an astonishingly short space, in glorious prose, with a narrative flow that pulls the whole story together and sweeps the reader along."--David C. Williams, Indiana University School of Law

List of contents

Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part I. Arms, the Man, and the Militia: The History of a Concept

1. The Gun in the American Self-Portrait
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2. The Militia Ideal in the American Revolutionary Era

3. Madisonian Structuralism: The Place of the Militia in the New American Science of Government
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Part II. From Militia to National Guard

4. The Decay of the Old Militia, 1789-1840

5. The Era of the Volunteers, 1840-1903

6. The United States Army and the United States Army National Guard in the Twentieth Century

Part III. The Meaning of Meaning

7. Text and Context

8. Other Theories of Meaning Considered

9. The Emerson Case

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the author

H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel

Product details

• Authors: William G Merkel, William G. Merkel, H Richard Uviller, H. Richard Uviller
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2003
• EAN: 9780822330172
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3017-2
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education