Second Amendment
Introduction
A starting point for new visitors

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Last updated: July 3, 1998

The following articles are especially helpful in gaining a basic understanding of the history, ideology and issues behind the current debate. Or, try the complete listing.

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Halbrook, Stephen P., The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment, 26 Val. L. Rev. 131-207 (1991). [HTML]~[PDF] 251k

_____, Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment, 15 Dayton L. Rev. 91-124 (1989). [HTML]~[PDF] 118k

Kates, Don B. Jr., The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection, 9 Const. Comm. 87-104 (1992). [HTML]~[PDF] 57k

Lund, Nelson, The Past and Future of the Individual’s Right to Arms, 31 Ga. L. Rev. 1-76 (1996). [HTML]~[PDF] 242k

Reynolds, Glenn H., A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 62 Tenn. L. Rev. 461-512 (1995). [HTML]~[PDF] 196k

Shalhope, Robert E.,, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, 69 J. of Am. Hist. 599-614 (1982). [HTML]~[PDF] 59k

Van Alstyne, William, The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, 43 Duke L.J. 1236-1255 (1994). [HTML]~[PDF] 65k

Vandercoy, David E., The History of the Second Amendment, 28 Val. L. Rev. 1007-1039 (1994). [HTML]~[PDF] 121k

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