num_pages: 188
description: This intriguing book examines how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms. The selections expose readers to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience.
language: English
title: Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?
titlecomplete: Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect? (Historians at Work)
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan