GUN CONTROL & CONST    V3 (Controversies in Constitutional Law)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: March 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780815312710
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Constitution: government & the state; Constitutional Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; USA; Civil Procedure; Constitutional
First sentence: The act of 1837, ch. 137, sec.2, which prohibits any person from wearing any bowie knife, or Arkansas tooth-pick, or other knife or weapon in form, shape or size resembling a bowie knife or Arkansas tooth-pick under his clothes, or concealed about his person, does not conflict with the 26th section of the first article of the bill of rights, securing to the free white citizens the right to keep and bear arms for their common defence.