That Every Man be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional RightThis is an authoritative study of the second amendment, using history and current-day analysis. It is one of the only scholarly works on the subject, but has proven widely accessible. Halbrook traces the origins of the Second Amendment back to ancient Greece and Rome, and then through the "freemen" movement in 18th-century England and France. He demonstrates that the framers of the Constitution were conscious of such history when they drafted the Second Amendment, and that the Second Amendment was clearly intended to allow possession of firearms not just for defense of personal life and property but also to prevent government infringement of human liberties. His meticulous, thorough scholarship demonstrates that the right to bear arms is as fundamental a right under the Constitution as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. |
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... Disarmed Slave and the Dred Scott Dilemma That " The People " Means All Humans : Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment 5 Freedmen , Firearms , and the Fourteenth Amendment That No State Shall Disarm a Freedman : The Proposal ...
... Disarmed Slave and the Dred Scott Dilemma That " The People " Means All Humans : Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment 5 Freedmen , Firearms , and the Fourteenth Amendment That No State Shall Disarm a Freedman : The Proposal ...
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... disarm all Englishmen , whom the Lieutenant should suspect , by day or by night , by force or otherwise . " 43 Mr. Finch thought that no man would be safe under the king , adding , " The constitution being limited , there is a good ...
... disarm all Englishmen , whom the Lieutenant should suspect , by day or by night , by force or otherwise . " 43 Mr. Finch thought that no man would be safe under the king , adding , " The constitution being limited , there is a good ...
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... disarm and thereby conquer Indians came to be applied against the settlers themselves , first in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 and again , a century later , in the great Revolution that ended colonial rule . In the minds of the American ...
... disarm and thereby conquer Indians came to be applied against the settlers themselves , first in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 and again , a century later , in the great Revolution that ended colonial rule . In the minds of the American ...
Contents
Firearms Prohibition and Constitutional Rights | 3 |
Arms Militia and Penal Reform in EighteenthCentury | 32 |
The American Revolution and the Second Amendment | 55 |
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