Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
- ISBN-10
- 0275963314
- ISBN-13
- 9780275963316
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Stephen P. Halbrook
Description
The only comprehensive study ever published on the intent of the framers of the 14th Amendment and of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to protect the right to keep and bear arms from State infringement.
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- 1998-11-30
- 246 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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