Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
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...
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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.BooknewsA Virginia lawyer with US Supreme Court credentials, Halbrook traces the adoption of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution and its relationship to other civil rights legislation passed during Reconstruction after the Civil War. He investigates whether its intent was to prevent individual states from limiting people's civil rights, especially the right to bear arms. He shows that the Amendment was designed to allow recently freed African Americans to defend themselves from racist attacks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Preface1The Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment12Congress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment573The Southern State Constitutional Conventions874The Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment Ratified1075Toward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 18711196From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights Revolution1357The Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the Supreme Court1598Unfinished Jurisprudence183Table of Cases203Bibliography207Index215
\ BooknewsA Virginia lawyer with US Supreme Court credentials, Halbrook traces the adoption of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution and its relationship to other civil rights legislation passed during Reconstruction after the Civil War. He investigates whether its intent was to prevent individual states from limiting people's civil rights, especially the right to bear arms. He shows that the Amendment was designed to allow recently freed African Americans to defend themselves from racist attacks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
