Gun Control and the Constitution 
Subtitle: The Courts, Congress, and the Second Amendment (Controversies in Constitutional Law)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780815312697
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Constitution: government & the state; United States.; Firearms; Constitutional Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; Law; USA; Civil Procedure; Law / General; Constitution; Constitutional; 2nd Amendment; Constitution.; Law and legislation
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.