{"product_id":"9781623095901","title":"Politics, Rights, Guns: The Great Political Dysfunction","description":"In all the cascade of news reporting and comment on the tragic event in Aurora, Co., no one has\u003cbr\u003eobserved that the Parker court (2007) concluded that we can have “registration ... for militia\u003cbr\u003eservice if called up.” There is no contradiction of that in the Supreme Court rulings. \u003cbr\u003eRegistration is the only way guns can be effectively regulated. That is where policy making\u003cbr\u003ebegins. Registration, that is, accountability to a governing authority, accountability to the very\u003cbr\u003elegitimacy of a governing authority, is the one point of policy the gun lobby’s childish political\u003cbr\u003efantasy cannot accommodate and what the NRA works hardest to defeat. That childish political\u003cbr\u003efantasy is that the purpose of all those gun in private hands, outside of accountability to a\u003cbr\u003egoverning authority is to maintain the “armed populace at large,” a collection of sovereign\u003cbr\u003eindividuals who made a treaty based on no more than word of honor and promise of good faith\u003cbr\u003eand not a government which in the words of Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers was\u003cbr\u003eabout “POLITICAL POWER AND SUPREMACY” (caps in original). \u003cbr\u003e Militia call up resurrects the original civic purposes of military obligation and military\u003cbr\u003epreparedness. Militia duty in the colonies, the early Republic, the Constitution, the Second\u003cbr\u003eAmendment and the Militia Act of 1792 was conscript duty. The Militia Act required gun\u003cbr\u003eownership, required militia officers to maintain inventories of privately owned weapons and\u003cbr\u003ereport them to the state governors and the president of the United States. \u003cbr\u003e The original state based military obligation became national in the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003eselective service acts. \u003cbr\u003e All that is missing in the midst of national tragedies is long-overdue political leadership. \u003cbr\u003eThat can start in the 2012 election season. This treatise makes a simple provocative proposal. \u003cbr\u003eWhen we lose our moorings and purposes the consequences are devastating. We have a crisis\u003cbr\u003enot only of gun violence mostly in the cities and of sovereignty on the Southwest border but in\u003cbr\u003eour political purpose. \u003cbr\u003e Gun rights ideologies cannot be limited to simply anti-government posturing. They are\u003cbr\u003epart of a much broader political and intellectual movement, which is called here the “Libertarian\u003cbr\u003eRight” that has very cynically never accepted the expansion of a governing authority, particularly,\u003cbr\u003ethe authority of the Federal Government to make the twentieth century social contract. This\u003cbr\u003emovement does not accept that the United States in the twentieth century became a modern nation\u003cbr\u003estate and national community with national interests which required an expansion of a national\u003cbr\u003egoverning authority. \u003cbr\u003e We start with the proposition that the Constitution is a frame of government not a treaty\u003cbr\u003eamong sovereign individuals. The consent to be governed has serious implications for private gun\u003cbr\u003eownership. We can argue the contours of the modern state policy by policy what we cannot do is\u003cbr\u003ethrow out constitutional state baby with the modern state bath water. Fortunately the courts have\u003cbr\u003enot done that.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158823354608,"sku":"9781623095901","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623095901_p0.jpg?v=1763864974","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623095901","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}