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Securing Civil Rights : Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms by Stephen P. Halbrook (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Author: Stephen P. Halbrook, Robert J. Cottrol. Title: Securing Civil Rights. Format: Paperback. Item Weight: 363g. Release Date: 11/19/2021. Publisher: Independent Institute,U.S. Genre: Law & Politics.

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PublisherIndependent Institute, T.H.E.

ISBN-101598133357

ISBN-139781598133356

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038378972

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Book TitleSecuring Civil Rights : Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicCivil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, American Government / National

GenreLaw, Political Science, History

AuthorStephen P. Halbrook

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2019-021076

Reviews"Halbrook has written a book that contributes significantly to our understanding of the linkage between the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. Although his primary concern has been to bring back the Second Amendment from a moribund state in American jurisprudence, Halbrook's efforts also shed considerable additional light on broader questions." -- Journal of Southern History, "In his thorough analysis of Congressional debates, Halbrook makes quite clear the point that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment saw Second Amendment guarantees as essential to the political liberty of the individual American citizen." -- American Journal of Legal History, "[Halbrook] provides overwhelming evidence that the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to protect the right of individuals to be armed and that this particular right was a major concern of its framers . . . . Above all, Halbrook helps restore the historical record of a badly served constitutional amendment." -- American Historical Review, "Halbrook does an impressive job of gathering evidence not only from the speeches of Bingham and Howard before, during, and after ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, but from a variety of other members of Congress, from newspaper coverage, and from law books of the day." -- National Review

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal344.7305/33

SynopsisStephen Halbrook's groundbreaking study of freed slaves and the right to bear arms in the aftermath of the Civil War, cited in Supreme Court cases, now with a new foreword by Robert J. Cottrol. What did it mean to take civil rights seriously--especially the "right to bear arms"--in the years following the abolition of slavery? By quoting legislative debates, Congressional hearings on Ku Klux Klan violence, and newspapers and law books of the time, constitutional scholar Stephen Halbrook shows that both supporters and opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) believed that it protected all Bill of Rights guarantees--especially the Second Amendment--from infringement by the states. From the Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1866 to the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Cruikshank (1876), Halbrook paints a vivid portrait of a political and legal system grappling with the true meaning of civil rights. "Trusting ex-slaves to own firearms was, by any definition, the cutting edge in true belief in civil rights," Halbrook writes. "It remains to be seen whether contemporary society will accommodate the same rights of the freedmen that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment sought to guarantee." Although Halbrook concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms, he also includes a comprehensive analysis of the general topic of the relationship between the Bill of Rights and the state governments after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Cited by both the U.S. Supreme Court in its historic landmark decision in the McDonald case (2010) and the Washington Supreme Court in State of Washington v. Christopher William Sieyes case (2010) as the leading account of the relationship between the Second Amendment and the states during Reconstruction, Halbrook's insightful narrative will help a larger audience better understand why earlier generations of Americans viewed the right to bear arms as essential for securing civil rights., Unique and well-researched, this study concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms and analyzes the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms in the period between 1866 and 1876, this comprehensive volume analyzes the extent to which American political society was willing to secure the same civil rights to all without regard to race or previous condition of slavery., Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms in the period between 1866 and 1876, this comprehensive volume analyses the extent to which American political society was willing to secure the same civil rights to all without regard to race or previous condition of slavery.

LC Classification NumberJC575.I48 2019