For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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Bloomsbury Academic, May 25, 1994 - Political Science - 304 pages

[This book] provides the kind of scholarly resource that educated citizens need to think for themselves, a rich digest of primary sources documenting--in their own words--the views, motives, and intentions of the Framers, historic commentators, legislators, and judiciary who have debated the right to keep and bear arms from the origins of our republic. Preston K. Covey, Carnegie Mellon University

Beginning with its origins in the English Civil War, Clayton Cramer traces the development in the United States of the right to keep and bear arms--through the Constitutional Convention, the ratification debates that followed, its inclusion by Congress in the Bill of Rights, to the present controversy over gun control. This book provides important background, analysis, documentation, and perspective for the ongoing national debate over arms.

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Contents

Definitions
1
European Origins
19
The Legislative History of the Second Amendment
31
Copyright

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About the author (1994)

CLAYTON E. CRAMER is author of By the Dim and Flaring Lamps: The Civil War Diary of Samuel McIlvaine, he has had numerous articles published concerning constitutional history, gun control, civil defense, and problems of media ethics.

Bibliographic information

TitleFor the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
AuthorClayton E. Cramer
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1994
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 27, 2008
ISBN0275949133, 9780275949136
Length304 pages
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Political Science / American Government / National
Political Science / General
  
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