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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0275963314
ISBN-13
9780275963316
eBay Product ID (ePID)
675985
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Publication Name
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
Language
English
Subject
Civil Rights, Constitutions, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), American Government / State
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-015622
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"[A] work of very considerable value. Thoroughly researched, the study rests on a more exacting examination of the relevant source material than any other study of the public record of the Joint Committee of Fifteen." Choice, "His tightly focused argument is novel and powerful enough to impress even a highly skeptical reader....Halbrook's critique of the judicial performance is biting and strong." The Law and Politics Book Review, "There have been many treatises written on the Fourteenth Amendment and the history of its development and interpretation, but this one is, in many ways, the most complete and comprehensive to date, covering many aspects that others have neglected, and providing its historical background and development, how its wording was drafted, and how its framers understood it....Hallbrook provides convincing evidence that the firearms which persons had the right to keep and bear were the latest firearms available, that the right was individual, intended to provide protection against abuse by government officials and their agents as well as against criminal attack, and that neither federal or state governments had the power to prohibit or disband militias, even if they were not state-sanctioned.... This treatise is a major contribution to legal history and commentary, and should be read by everyone having an interest in civil rights or firearms rights." H-Net Reviews, "This book is valuable to attorneys who labor to understand the background of the Cruikshank case, which is known for the Supreme Court's peculiar opinion that certain rights granted by the federal government are fundamental--and protected--and natural rights are not...military leaders should read this book." Military Review, "Halbrook assuredly achieves his goal. He provides overwhelming evidence that the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to protect the right of individuals to be armed and that this particular right was a major concern of its framers. He offers scholars in the field a wealth of quotations from the historical debates. He includes an interesting account of southern conventions, and an excellent account of the events leading up to the landmark Cruickshank case....[H]albrook helps restore the historical record of a badly served constitutional amendment." American Historical Review
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
800
Table Of Content
Preface The Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment Congress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment The Southern State Constitutional Conventions The Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment Ratified Toward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights Revolution The Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the Supreme Court Unfinished Jurisprudence
Synopsis
Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today's gun-control debate. This is the only comprehensive study ever published on the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment and of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to protect the right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, this is the most detailed study ever published about the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate and to protect from state violation any of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, even including free speech. Paradoxically, the Second Amendment is virtually the only Bill of Rights guarantee not recognized by the federal courts as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Through legislative and historical records generated during the Reconstruction epoch (1866-1876), Halbrook shows the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment and of civil rights legislation to guarantee full and equal rights to blacks, including the right to keep and bear arms.
LC Classification Number
KF4749
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