Right to Bear Arms State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees

Name: Right to Bear Arms State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees
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ISBN: 9780313265396

ISBN-10: 0313265399

ISBN-13: 9780313265396

Edition: 1989

Authors: Stephen P. Halbrook

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The 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. This is the first book ever published on the immediate origins of the right to bear arms in the state and federal bill of rights. The work relies…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/24/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 173
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


The Inhabitants of Boston Disarmed ""The Right to Bear Arms"" in the State Declarations of Rights ""A Well Regulated Militia"" in the State Declarations of Rights


Constitutions Without Bills of Rights Charters Without Constitutions E pilogue


Constitutional Conventions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Selected Bibliography


Index