FREEDMEN, THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, 1866-76 by Stephen P. Halbrook ( 9780275963316 )

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FREEDMEN, THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, 1866-76

By:

Stephen P. Halbrook

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0275963314

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9780275963316

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Publisher:

ABC-CLIO

Pub. date:

30 November, 1998

Pages:

248

Description:

The right to keep and bear arms was considered a fundamental right in the original 14 American states from the pre-Revolutionary period through to the ratification of the Second Amendment in the US Constitution in 1791. This book documents the deprivation of this right and its history.

Synopsis:

Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today's gun-control debate. This is the only comprehensive study ever published on the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment and of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to protect the right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, this is the most detailed study ever published about the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate and to protect from state violation any of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, even including free speech. Paradoxically, the Second Amendment is virtually the only Bill of Rights guarantee not recognized by the federal courts as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Through legislative and historical records generated during the Reconstruction epoch (1866-1876), Halbrook shows the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment and of civil rights legislation to guarantee full and equal rights to blacks, including the right to keep and bear arms.

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black & white illustrations

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Praeger Publishers Inc

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