Volume 42, Number 14 · September 21, 1995
To Keep and Bear Arms
By Garry Wills
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Amendment Symposium Issue
Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1995
University of Tennessee—Knoxville College of Law, 378 pp., $7.00 (paper)
A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees
by Stephen P. Halbrook
Greenwood Press, 173 pp., $49.95
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Harvard University Press, 232 pp., $29.95
Guns, Crime, and Freedom
by Wayne LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy
HarperPerennial, 263 pp., $12.50 (paper)
An Argument, Shewing, that a Standing Army Is inconsistent with A Free Government, and absolutely destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy
by John Trenchard
London
Over the last decade, an industrious band of lawyers, historians, and criminologists has created a vast outpouring of articles justifying individual gun ownership on the basis of the Second Amendment: 'A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'
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