Read complete books and articles on: Right to Bear Arms (Second Amendment)

Gun Control - government limitation of the purchase and ownership of firearms. The availability of guns is controlled by nations and localities throughout the world. In the United States the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is guaranteed by the Constitution, but has been variously interpreted through the years. Since the late 1930s federal judicial and law enforcement

15 of the Best Books and Articles on: Right to Bear Arms (Second Amendment)

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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 » Read Now
by Clayton E. Cramer. 286 pgs.

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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...
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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.
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A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees » Read Now
by Stephen P. Halbrook. 168 pgs.

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This work 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 of 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...
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This work 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 of 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 primarily on original sources such as period newspapers, constitutional convention debates, and the writings of the framers of the first state constitutions. The epilogue accounts for changes in bills of rights that have affected the issue of the right to bear arms.
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Showdown in the Show-Me State: The Fight over Conceal-and-Carry Gun Laws in Missouri » Read Now
by William T. Horner. 310 pgs.

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What does the Second Amendment Restrict? A Collective Rights Analysis, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Carl T. Bogus. 32 pgs.

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...people the right to keep and bear arms within the...being necessary to the security...State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not...states have a right...
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The Second Amendment in Historical Context, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Don Higginbotham. 6 pgs.

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...to provide arms for their state...Congress failed to provide them...individual right, they rarely...a right to bear arms" both...hampered efforts to interpret its...To Keep...
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International Law and the United States Constitution in Conflict: A Case Study on the Second Amendment, in Houston Journal of International Law » Read Now
by Joseph Bruce Alonso. 60 pgs.

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Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress (Chap. 18 "Restoring the Right to Bear Arms") » Read Now
by David Boaz, Edward H. Crane. 676 pgs.

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Every two years Cato Handbook for Congress sets the standard in the nation's capital for how to return the federal goverment to the size and scope envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process ("To Keep and Bear Arms" begins on p. 59) » Read Now
by Robert A. Levy. 327 pgs.

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Shakedown tells a two-part tale of government-sponsored extortion using the courts. Levy uncovers the worst of the abuses and advises to lawmakers what to do about them.
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The Paradox of Auxiliary Rights: The Privilege against Self-Incriminition and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by Michael Steven Green. 66 pgs.

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...and the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms are examples of auxiliary...purpose of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. (8) Some defenders of...
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To Keep and Bear Arms in the Early Republic, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Robert E. Shalhope. 14 pgs.

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...should have the right to keep and bear arms. Bellesiles reasons...Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms: An Exchange, 71...employs this term to describe the...
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Guns, Words, and Constitutional Interpretation, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by L.A. Powe Jr. 94 pgs.

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...Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms because the Second Amendment...Amendment guarantees no individual right to keep and bear arms, but the Court has yet...
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Suicide Pact: New Readings of the Second Amendment, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Michael A. Bellesiles. 16 pgs.

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...Second Amendment a right to insurrection. The...individual right to bear arms as an implicit...proves an individual right to bear arms, most particularly...support of this...
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St. George Tucker and the Second Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Misunderstandings, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Saul Cornell. 32 pgs.

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The Cruikshank Redemption: The Enduring Rationale for Excluding the Second Amendment from the Courts's Modern Incorporation Doctrine, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology » Read Now
by David A. Lieber. 47 pgs.

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Fundamental Rights and the Right to Bear Arms, in Criminal Justice Ethics » Read Now
by Cynthia A. Stark. 2 pgs.

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