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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