The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller

by University of Massachusetts and Saul A. Cornell

Book Overview

On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the meaning of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" to affirm an individual right to own a gun in the home for purposes of self-defense. The landmark...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499954
• ISBN13: 9781558499959
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"