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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Keep and bear arms"”.
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… that it protects each person's right to own and use weapons for any non-criminal purpose; and a "collective rights" interpretation which asserts that it protects only the states' right to maintain a National Guard force. Both positions cater to contemporary political agendas, display …
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The Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
… drafting history, text, original understanding, interpretive evolution, and contemporary judicial application of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The dissertation develops the argument that as originally understood, the Second Amendment protected a right to keep and …
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An analysis of the role of firearms control laws in South African society
… to establish on empirical grounds the role firearms control laws play in South African society. A holist methodological position was adopted from among the alternatives available for scientific social research, and the structural-functional theoretical framework of the main line tradition was …