Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect?
By: readings selected and introduced by Saul Cornell ; selections by Robert E. Shalhope ... [et al.].
Contributors: Cornell, Saul.; Shalhope, Robert E., 1941-
Series: Historians at work
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: United States. -- History.; Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Description: "Exploring 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.