To keep and bear arms : the origins of an Anglo-American right / Joyce Lee Malcolm.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

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Firearms.

Firearms -- United States.

Constitutional history.

Constitutional history -- United States.

Constitutional law.

1. A people armed; 2. Bearing arms through war and revolution; 3. The dissidents disarmed; 4. The gentleman's game; 5. Enforcement of arms restrictions; 6. James II and control of firearms; 7. Arms for their defence: the making of a "true, ancient, and indubitable right"; 8. The second amendment and the English legacy.

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