The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (Independent Studies in Political Economy) - Softcover

Halbrook, Stephen P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566639719 ISBN 13: 9781566639712

Verlag: Ivan R. Dee/ Independent Institute, 2012

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Do Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms? Or is this power vested solely in government? Recent years have seen a sea change in scholarship on the Second Amendment. Beginning in the 1960s, a revisionist view emerged that individuals had a "right" to bear arms only in militia service—a limited, collective right. But in the late 1980s a handful of scholars began producing an altogether persuasive analysis that changed thinking on the matter, so that today, even in canonical textbooks, bearing arms is acknowledged as an individual right. Stephen Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is the first book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment, based on the Founders' own statements as found in newspapers, correspondence, debates, and resolutions.

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Stephen B. Halbrook is Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a Ph.D. in social philosophy from Florida State University. His other books include That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms; Firearms Law Deskbook; and A Right to Bear Arms.

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• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee/ Independent Institute
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1566639719
• ISBN 13: 9781566639712
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444
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