A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees

Abstract: Explores the basis of the United States Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, in terms of other documents contemporaneous to the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

Keywords: book review, constitution, law, history, right to keep and bear arms, RKBA, firearms, legislation, United States.

Title: A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees Author: Stephen P. Halbrook Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group Date Published: October 1989 ISBN: 0313265399 LOCN: KF3941.Z95H35 1989 Dewey: 344.73/0533 347.304533 20

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1: The Inhabitants of Boston Disarmed

Chapter 2: "The Right to Bear Arms" in the State Declarations of Rights

Chapter 3: "A Well Regulated Militia" in the State Declarations of Rights

Chapter 4: Constitutions Without Bills of Rights

Chapter 5: Charters Without Constitutions

Epilogue: Constitutional Conventions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Selected Bibliography

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