A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional GuaranteesThe right to keep and bear arms was considered a fundamental, individual right in the original 14 states (the 13 colonies and Vermont) from the pre-Revolutionary period through the adoption of the federal Bill of Rights in 1791. A Right to Bear Arms is the first book to demonstrate the deprivation of this right as a causal factor to the American Revolution. The book also examines the significance of the right to bear arms in each of the first states and the state influences on the adoption of the Second Amendment to the federal Constitution. |
References to this book
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 Stephen P. Halbrook No preview available - 1998 |