Download or read book Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect? written by Saul Cornell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book examines how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms. The selections expose readers to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience.