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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Halbrook, Stephen P.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Édition:Revised and updated edition.
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Firearms > Law and legislation
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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