That every man be armed
the evolution of a constitutional right
by Stephen P. Halbrook · first published 1984
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"A revised and updated edition of Halbrook's 1984 book discussing the Second Amendment and the individual right to bear arms"--Provided by publisher.
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…equal - they might have been written by some senile, crazy old man who just wanted to maintain his enslaved properties 400 years ago." Yes, it seems you are. You have some reading to do, I'd start with That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Stephen P. Halbrook. One of the Ur sources that the Supreme Court supermajority used to find this decision and enforce on New York and ultimate the 6 other…
on “US Supreme Court expands gun rights” ↗…historical context (which per an expanded version of the SCOTUSBlog article goes back to the 12th Century). You could try reading the decision, or Heller, but the go-to foundational book has long been That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Stephen P. Halbrook.
on “Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights” ↗…resulting in really messy jurisprudence in the 20th as the Supremes have selectively applied it (for the 2nd, in McDonald very recently). An old (1984) but excellent book that includes coverage of this is That Every Man Be Armed: http://www.amazon.com/That-Every-Man-Armed-Constitutional/dp... The beginning and as I recall bulk of the book is on the 2nd Amendment period, and that's useful for learning why our current police forces…
on “Support for gun control in America at a 50 year low. Are video games the cause?” ↗> You have some reading to do, I'd start with That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Stephen P. Halbrook. Reading more books written by the same type of people who wrote the 2nd is just using circular logic to prove your point and it only serves…
on “US Supreme Court expands gun rights” ↗Just got my revised and updated edition of Halbrook's groundbreaking That Every Man Be Armed, and on pages 69-70 he confirms that prior to the conditional ratification of the Constitution, 7 of the 13 states had declarations acknowledging the RKBA, and 2 that didn't "later demanded protection…
on “U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records” ↗…(Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.) "The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.) Yet you claim "2A is absolutely not about individual rights. No Founder…
on “Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests” ↗…attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." - Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778 "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only…
…of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" (Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87) "The great object is that every man be armed" and "everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia,...taken in…
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