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A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control
Saul Cornell,Nathan DeDino +1 more
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This article is published in Fordham Law Review.The article was published on 2004-12-31 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gun control.read more
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Private Guns, Public Health
TL;DR: David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach-which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun violence.
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Culture Warriors Go To Court: The Supreme Court and the Battle for the "Soul" of America
TL;DR: Spivey as discussed by the authors analyzes the nature and scope of battles over culture war issues in the United Supreme Court and concludes that there is not one culture war but rather an interrelated set of cultural battles.
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The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
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The State of the Castle An Overview of Recent Trends in State Castle Doctrine Legislation and Public Policy
TL;DR: A historical perspective on the legal etiology of the castle doctrine relating to self-defense is offered and existing and pending castle doctrine legislation through December 2008 is analyzed.
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Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment
TL;DR: In this paper, the wife of Nathan Barrett, captain of one of Concord's militia companies, spotted one of her husband's men skedaddling home and she went out of her house to confront him, and when he explained that he was feeling ill, she responded that he must not take his gun with him.
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Evaluating gun policy : effects on crime and violence
Jens Ludwig,Philip J. Cook +1 more
TL;DR: Evaluating Gun Policy as mentioned in this paper provides guidance for a pragmatic approach to gun policy using good empirical research to help resolve conflicting assertions about the effects of guns, gun control, and law enforcement.
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The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
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No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights
TL;DR: Curtis as discussed by the authors argued that the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action and rebut their argument with vigor and effectiveness, conclusively demonstrating the legitimacy of the incorporation thesis.
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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872
TL;DR: In the late 1860s South Carolina Klansmen unleashed a reign of terror over blacks, and even some whites, in the state as mentioned in this paper. Suppression of the uprising entailed federal military intervention, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, highly publicized trials, and the conviction of several KKK members.
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The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
TL;DR: Bogus as mentioned in this paper argues that there is strong reason to believe that James Madison drafted the Second Amendment to assure his constituents in Virginia, and the South generally, that Congress could not use its newly acquired powers to indirectly undermine the slave system by disarming the militia, on which the South relied for slave control.
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The Right to Bear Arms in the Era of the Fourteenth Amendment: Gun Rights or Gun Regulation
Saul Cornell,Justin Florence +1 more