Product Description: Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect? This intriguing question is explored here. Examining how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms, the selections expose students 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)