The Second Amendment
a biography
by Michael Waldman · first published 2014
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"By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights. At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult men--who were required to own a gun to serve. Waldman recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the
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…https://archive.is/TZAJs Doing a similar search in just the works of the Founding Fathers' works would bear similar results. For a fuller treatment on the subject I will refer you to Michael Waldman's The Second Amendment: A Biography where he goes into this: * https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Second-Amendment/... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waldman See also my other comment about a literature…
on “Supreme Court to Decide First-Ever Gun-Carry Case” ↗…American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” * http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/article28078752.... There's a book mentioned in the above article called "The Second Amendment: A Biography”, but haven’t had a chance to read it yet. The author, Michael Waldman, has some good interviews and talks online. It was released in 2014 and most of them are from then. These two are pretty…
on “The Second Amendment: Original Intent” ↗