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THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO STUDY THE PRESIDENCY IS THE POLICY ANALYSIS APPROACH: WHERE THE OBJECT OF STUDY IS THE POLICY ITSELF. A DISCUSSION OF THE POLICY APPROACH IS OFFERED, AND AN EMPIRICAL STUDY, BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL POLICY FROM 1954-1974, IS OUTLINED FOCUSING ON AREAS WHERE PRESIDENTS ARE MOST POLICY-EFFECTIVE.

In "The Gun Dilemma", Robert J. Spitzer examines this 'gun rights 2.0' movement in the light of a host of gun controversies: assault weapons, ammunition magazines, silencers, public gun brandishing and display, and the emergent Second Amendment sanctuary movement. Given the importance of actual gun law history to this debate, Spitzer draws from the historical record to illuminate several contemporary and emergent gun controversies that may well make their way to the Supreme Court.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Trilogy -- I. How the Quartet Connects to the Trilogy: Three Dimensions of Conversion -- II. Moral Conversion-the Reason for This Trilogy -- A. Volume I-The Recognition of Spiritual Evil and Its Tactics -- B. Volume II-Engagement in Spiritual and Moral Conversion -- C. Volume III-Formation of Conscience through the Teaching of Christ and the Church -- III. Conclusion -- Part One: The Reality of Divine Goodness and Spiritual Evil -- Introduction to Part One -- Chapter One: The God of Love Is with Us -- Introduction -- I. The Guidance, Power, and Inspiration of the Holy Spirit -- A. A Peace beyond All Understanding -- 1. Peace in Times of Suffering -- 2. Peace in Times of Persecution -- 3. The Peace Necessary for Good Judgment -- B. Inspiration and Guidance -- 1. Words of Help and Edification -- 2. The Sensus Fidei -- 3. Guidance on Our Way -- C. Transformation in the Heart of Christ -- D. Working with the Holy Spirit -- II. Visions and Revelations-and Their Distinction from Psychologically Induced Phenomena -- III. Christian Mysticism -- A. The Purgative Stage of Contemplative Life -- B. The Illuminative Stage of the Contemplative Life -- C. The Lord's Presence and Consolation in Contemplative Life -- D. The Passive Dark Night of the Spirit ("The Dark Night of the Soul") -- E. The Unitive Stage of Contemplative Life -- IV. Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Jesus' Victory over Satan -- Introduction -- I. Satan and Demons in the Old and New Testaments -- II. Jesus' Defeat of Satan in the Temptations in the Desert -- III. Jesus' Prolific Ministry of Exorcism -- IV. Jesus' Teachings about Satan and His Power -- A. The Beelzebul Controversy (Mt 12:22-32 -- Mk 3:22-29 -- Lk 11:14-23) -- B. "I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning" (Lk 10:18) -- C. The Sermon on the Mount -- D. Three Parables-"The Sower" (Mt 13:1-23.

"In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming. They have had great success in conflating unfettered gun ownership with the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and all things American, even in an era of repeated mass shootings. Yet the all-too-familiar narrative of America's gun past, echoed in the Supreme Court's Heller gun rights decision, is not only mythologized, but historically wrong. As Robert J. Spitzer demonstrates in Guns across America, gun ownership is as old as the nation, but so is gun regulation. Drawing on a vast new dataset of early gun laws reflecting every imaginable type of regulation, Spitzer reveals that firearms were actually more strictly regulated in the country's first three centuries than in recent years. The first'gun grabbers'were not 1960's Chablis-drinking liberals, but seventeenth century rum-guzzling pioneers, and their legacy continued through strict gun regulations in the 1920s and beyond. Spitzer examines interpretations of the Second Amendment, the assault weapons controversy, modern'stand your ground'laws, and the so-called'right of rebellion'to show that they play out in America's contemporary political landscape in ways that bear little resemblance to our imagined past. And as gun rights proponents seek to roll back gun laws and press as many guns into as many hands as possible, warning that gun rights are endangered, they sidestep the central question: are stricter gun laws incompatible with robust gun rights? Spitzer answers this question by examining New York State's tough gun laws, where his political analysis is complemented by his own quest for a concealed carry handgun permit and construction of a legal AR-15 assault weapon. Not only can gun rights and rules coexist, but they have throughout American history. Guns across America reveals the long-hidden truth: that gun regulations are in fact as American as apple pie"--Publisher's description