First Published in 1993. This volume is a collection of legal and historical material of the second amendment that includes court cases and decisions, law review articles and gives a balanced view of both sides of the debate.

Robert J. Cottrol RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF LAW

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION II. INTRODUCTION TO GUN CONTROL AND THE CONSTITUTION III. COURT OPINIONS Aymette vs. The State; Presser v. Illinois; United States v. Miller et al; IV. CONGRESS Firearms Owners' Protection Act; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; V. GENERAL TOPICS Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment; The Embarrassing Second Amendment; Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment; VI. THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND Standing Armies and Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment; The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition; VII. CITIZENSHIP, REPUBLICANISM, AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The Ideological Origns of the Second Amendment; An Armed Community: The Origins and Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms; Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment; The Fourteenth Amendment and The Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers; The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration