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

ISBN: 1558499954

ISBN13: 9781558499959

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

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...

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