Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876
The right to keep and bear arms was considered a fundamental right in the original 14 American states from the pre-Revolutionary period through to the ratification of the Second Amendment in the US Constitution in 1791. This book documents the deprivation of this right and its history.
History
xiii, 230 pages ; 25 cm
9780275963316, 0275963314
38916189
PrefaceThe Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth AmendmentCongress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth AmendmentThe Southern State Constitutional ConventionsThe Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment RatifiedToward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights RevolutionThe Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the Supreme CourtUnfinished Jurisprudence