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Second Amendment

University of Michigan Law School

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Militia

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Taking Aim At An American Myth, Paul Finkelman May 2001

Taking Aim At An American Myth, Paul Finkelman

Michigan Law Review

Every American had a musket hanging over his fireplace at night, and by his side during the day. Like Cincinnatus, time and again Americans dropped their plows to shoulder their arms, to fight the Indians, the French, the Indians, the British, the Indians, the Mexicans, the Indians yet again, and then, from 1861 to 1865, each other. American men were comfortable with guns; they needed them and wanted them. They felt at home in woods, in search of food, or in defense of their homesteads. It is a story as old as our first pulp novels and earliest movies. It …


The Privilege To Keep And Bear Arms: The Second Amendment And Its Interpretation, William A. Walker May 1990

The Privilege To Keep And Bear Arms: The Second Amendment And Its Interpretation, William A. Walker

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms: The Second Amendment and Its Interpretation by Warren Freedman