Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Framers’ Constitution
6. 1. The Background of the Framers’ Thinking 15
7. 2. The History of the Second Amendment 39
8. 3. The Original Legal Meaning of the Second Amendment and the Military Provisions of the Constitution 69
9. Part II. The Mythic Second Amendment Today
10. 4. Antirevolutionists 97
11. 5. Libertarians and Populists 151
12. 6. The Militia Movement’s Theory of the Second Amendment 191
13. 7. Outgroups and the Second Amendment 220
14. Part III. Reconstructing a Constitutional Organization of Violence
15. 8. The Silent Crisis 261
16. 9. Redeeming the People 281
17. Notes 327
18. Index 381