Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876
Notes:
foreword by Robert J. Cottrol Originally published: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.
Contents:
The Civil Rights and the Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Congress reacts to southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The southern state constitutional conventions -- The Freedmen's Bureau Act reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified -- toward adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 -- From the klan trials and hearings through the end of the civil rights revolution -- The Cruikshank case, from trial to the Supreme Court -- Unfinished jurisprudence.
Summary:
"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 publisher's website
Series:
Independent Institute studies in political economy
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