The mythic meanings of the Second Amendment : taming political violence in a constitutional republic
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書誌事項
The mythic meanings of the Second Amendment : taming political violence in a constitutional republic
Yale University Press, c2003
大学図書館所蔵 全6件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- The background of the framers' thinking
- The history of the Second Amendment
- The original legal meaning of the Second Amendment and the military provisions of the constitution
- Antirevolutionists
- Libertarians and populists
- The militia movement's theory of the Second Amendment
- Outgroups and the Second Amendment
- The silent crisis
- Redeeming the people
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Second Amendment, which concerns the right of the people to keep and bear arms, has been the subject of great debate for decades. Does it protect an individual's right to arms or only the right of the states to maintain militias? In this work David Williams offers a reading of the Second Amendment: that it guarantees to individuals a right to arms only insofar as they are part of a united and consensual people, so that their uprising can be a unified revolution rather than a civil war. Williams argues that the Second Amendment has been based on myths about America: the Framers' belief in American unity and modern interpreters' belief in American distrust and disunity. Neither of these myths, however, will adequately curb political violence. Williams suggests that the amendment should serve not as a rule of law but as a cultural ideal that promotes American unity on the use of political violence and celebrates their diversity in other areas of life.
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