Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-347) and index.
The history and politics of Second Amendment scholarship: a primer / Carl T. Bogus -- Lost and found: researching the Second Amendment / Robert J. Spitzer -- The Second Amendment in action / Michael A. Bellesiles -- The Second Amendment: the highest stage of originalism / Jack N. Rakove -- "A well regulated militia": the Second Amendment in historical perspective / Paul Finkelman -- Muting the Second Amendment: the disappearance of the constitutional militia / H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel -- Natural rights and the Second Amendment / Steven J. Heyman -- To hold and bear arms: the English perspective / Lois G. Schwoerer -- Disarmed by time: the Second Amendment and the failure of originalism / Daniel A. Farber -- What does the Second Amendment mean today? / Michael C. Dorf