Presents three distinct viewpoints that seek to define the Second Amendment, important court cases and acts that have challenged this amendment, and the recent debate over the individual versus collective rights of gun ownership.
Examines the First Amendment, which established the freedom of speech, discussing how it has affected the lives of American citizens, the separation between church and state, and its origins.
Accenting the efforts of the Prohibition groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, the book reviews the events and sentiments of the times that led to the short-lived existence of the Eighteenth Amendment.
