Gun Control and the Constitution
Subtitle: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780815316664
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Law and legislation; Firearms; Constitutional Law; United States.; History - General History; Law; General; Civil Procedure; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science / General; Constitution; United States; Constitutional; 2nd Amendment; Constitution.
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.