Download or read book Firearms Regulation in the Bill of Rights written by Margie Burns and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction book emphasizes the English language at the time the first ten amendments were composed, and compares the first ten amendments to the language of later amendments to the U.S. Constitution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The English words in the Bill of Rights have been misconstrued in recent years, even in some federal courts. Firearms Regulation in the Bill of Rights argues that the lexicon of the Bill of Rights itself supports regulation of firearms--gun control and gun safety. The writing of authors consulted by Supreme Court justices includes Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Dr. Samuel Johnson, revisited in this book to examine an issue that periodically reaches the high court. Hundreds of sources include English and American public documents using the same words, before the eighteenth century and after; early American newspapers; and English dictionaries from the eighth century through the eighteenth. No other book in the marketplace covers the same ground. This book does not merely retrace recent arguments by attorneys specializing in the second amendment. Discussion touches on U.S. history, British history, and political philosophy, an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the eighteenth-century lexicon of the Bill of Rights in context, and at the ways our understanding of the language has changed since the eighteenth century. Further description (edited from comments by proposal readers): The book provides a window onto the eighteenth-century language of the framers of the Bill of Rights. Speaking to both scholarly and general interests, it extends the examination of eighteenth-century usage in unusual ways to U.S. history and later issues of constitutional interpretation. Thorough, rigorous research explores and contrasts the language and reach of the first and second amendments. This compelling and original project stands out in its independence and singularity, an inspiring example of how well-trained academics should participate in broader national discussions. The exhaustive archival research, the precision of the intellectual concerns, and the rare tenacity in pursuit of the evidence speak to an unusual single-mindedness. The search through eighteenth-century and older writings for the intent of the words provides the necessary background in etymology and in contemporaneous usage.