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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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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[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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
Definitions
European Origins
The Legislative History of the Second Amendment
Problems of Judicial Interpretation
"To Keep and Carry Arms Wherever They Went"
"No Negro . . . Shall Be Allowed To Carry Fire-Arms"
"Carrying Concealed Weapons Is a Grievous Evil"
"A Proper Reason for Carrying a Pistol"
Civil Rights, Civil Disturbances
The Right Comes Out of Its Coma?
At the Crossroads
Selected Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published May 25 1994
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9780275949136
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Clayton E. Cramer

CLAYTON E. CRAMER works as a software engineer for…

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