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Vol. 25, No. 1

Spring 2007



Editorial Staff  

In This Issue vii


Articles

"A Civil Inconvenience"? The Vexed Question of Slave Marriage in the British West Indies
Cecilia A. Green 1

Sir John Fielding and Public Justice: The Bow Street Magistrates' Court, 1754–1780
J. M. Beattie 61

Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation, and Convict Resistance in London, 1789
Simon Devereaux 101


Forum: Rethinking the Second Amendment

Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment
Robert H. Churchill 139


  Comment

Arms and the Man: What Did the Right to "Keep" Arms Mean in the Early Republic
David Thomas Konig 177

Mandatory Gun Ownership, the Militia Census of 1806, and Background Assumptions concerning the Early American Right to Arms: A Cautious Response to Robert Churchill
William G. Merkel 187

Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence
Saul Cornell 197


  Response

Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends
Robert H. Churchill 205


Book Reviews

The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s—R. H. Helmholz
reviewed by Charles J. Donahue, Jr. 217

On The Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory—Brian Z. Tamanaha
reviewed by Mortimer Sellers 219

The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain—Jordanna Bailkin
reviewed by Susan Scafidi 221

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business—Lowell J. Satre
reviewed by Bernie D. Jones 222

A Windfall for the Magnates: The Development of Woodland Ownership in Denmark c. 1150–1830—Bo Fritzbøger
reviewed by Eric Kades 223

The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789–1830—Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
reviewed by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 225

Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, The Jury Trial, and the Law—Gary Rosenshield
reviewed by Girish Bhat 227

A History of Public Law in Germany 1914–1945—Michael Stolleis
reviewed by Peter L. Lindseth 229

The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided—Michael P. Winship
reviewed by Yasuhide Kawashima 230

Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635–1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood—Nancy Hathaway Steenburg
reviewed by Norma Basch 232

Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution—Calvin H. Johnson
reviewed by John P. Kaminski 234

The Olmsted Case: Privateers, Property, and Politics in Pennsylvania, 1778–1810—M. Ruth Kelly
reviewed by Emily Blanck 235

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943—Erika Lee
reviewed by John S. W. Park 237

From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965—Jennifer Mittelstadt
reviewed by Michael S. Green 239


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