The Founders' Second Amendment
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Published on 15. January 2019
456 pages
978-1-5381-2967-8 (ISBN)
Description
Stephen P. 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. Mr. Halbrook investigates the period from 1768 to 1826, from the last years of British rule and the American Revolution through to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the passing of the Founders' generation. His book offers the most comprehensive analysis of the arguments behind the drafting and adoption of the Second Amendment, and the intentions of the men who created it.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-2967-8 (9781538129678)
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01/2019
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
Stephen P. 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.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- DISARMING THE COLONISTS
- 1 "The Inhabitants to Be Disarmed
- 2 From the Tea Party to the Powder Alarm
- 3 The Arms Embargo and Search and Seizure at the Neck
- 4 A Shot Heard 'Round the World and "a Cruel Act of Perfidy
- OF REVOLUTION AND RIGHTS
- 5 "Times That Try Men's Souls
- 6 "That the People Have a Right
- 7 "A Musket to Defend These Rights
- THE CONSTITUTION AND COMPROMISE
- 8 A Constitution with No Bill of Rights?
- 9 The "Dissent of the Minority
- 10 Virginia Tips the Scales
- 11 "A Majority That Is Irresistible
- TO KEEP AND BEAR THEIR PRIVATE ARMS
- 12 Mr. Madison's Amendments
- 13 The Bill of Rights in the States
- 14 The Great Militia Debate
- 15 Old Founders Never Die, They Just Fade Away
- Preface to the 2019 Edition
- CONCLUSION
- 16 What Does the Second Amendment Say?
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Author
