That every man be armed : the evolution of a constitutional right /

A revised and updated edition of the author's 1984 book discussing the Second Amendment and the individual right to bear arms. The author traces the right to bear arms from ancient Greece and Rome to the English republicans, then to the American Revolution and Constitution, through the Reconstr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halbrook, Stephen P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Edición:Revised and updated edition.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Firearms > Law and legislation
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : firearms prohibition and constitutional rights
  • The elementary books of public right
  • The common law of England
  • The American Revolution and the Second Amendment
  • Antebellum interpretations
  • Freedmen, firearms, and the Fourteenth Amendment
  • The Supreme Court speaks
  • State and federal judicial decisions
  • Afterword : Public policy and the right to keep and bear arms.

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