Citation

Halbrook SP. J. Firearms Public Policy 1995; 7(1): 135-214.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Second Amendment Foundation)

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to trace the adoption of, and to investigate the interrelationship between, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Freedmen's Bureau Act, focusing particularly on the right to keep and bear arms. This will entail analyzing the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and other relevant proceedings in the Thirty-Ninth Congress. This study concludes with an overview of the concepts of both personal liberty and security as recognized in the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Fourteenth Amendment.