Stephen B. Halbrook is Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a Ph.D. in social philosophy from Florida State University. His other books include That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right; Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms; Firearms Law Deskbook; and A Right to Bear Arms.
Stephen Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is first-rate
work, utterly convincing. This is a solid and important work.
*Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama; author of We the
People*
I enthusiastically recommend Stephen Halbrook's book, The Founder's
Second Amendment. This is an original and valuable approach,
focusing on the place of individual ownership of firearms during
the time of the American Revolution and the drafting and
ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It will add
appreciably to the scholarship on the origins and meaning of the
Second Amendment.
*Joyce L. Malcolm*
The Founder's Second Amendment is an impressive achievement.
Halbrook shows conclusively to any honest mind, both in respect to
historical evidence and analytical jurisprudence, that the Framers
intended the Second Amendment not as the reserved right of a State
government to organize a militia, but of the people as individuals
to keep and to bear arms. In this meticulously researched and
exhaustive study, Halbrook has produced what promises to be the
standard work for years to come on the original intent of the
Second Amendment. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars of
the Constitution.
*Donald W. Livingston, emeritus professor of philosophy, Emory
University*
Stephen Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is crisply
written, rich with history, and sure to be valuable to anyone
interested in understanding the original meaning of the Second
Amendment's right to bear arms.
*Glenn Harlan Reynolds*
Like much of Halbrook's other excellent work, The Founders' Second
Amendment is both well-written and full of fascinating details. It
will serve as an important resource for professional scholars and
interested laypersons. One especially useful aspect of Halbrook's
work is that the author so consistently lets a huge variety of
original sources speak for themselves.
*Nelson Lund*
Historian and philosopher Stephen Halbrook is the single most
prolific researcher on the Second Amendment, having contributed
literally dozens of scholarly articles on various aspects of the
subject. The Founders' Second Amendment masterfully both extends
and summarizes his (and others') research. It is the last word—the
single most comprehensive work on the thinking of the Founding
Fathers' era about the constitutional right of citizens to be
armed.
*Don B. Kates*
The subject of The Founders' Second Amendment is currently
'front-and-center' as a 'hot' and major controversy. Well
researched and well presented, Halbrook's book has brought forward
a substantial amount of new research, not redundant of what others
have provided, and this book will find a solid place among leading
works on the subject.
*William W. Van Alstyne*
A timely introduction to this most contentious of debates.
*Publishers Weekly*
The book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to form a
knowledgeable opinion on the meaning, application and reason behind
the Second Amendment.
*New American*
The depth and detail added to source material quotes makes this a
fine pick for both college and high school collections strong in
American history and politics.
*Midwest Book Review*
[Halbrook] covers the Second Amendment's historical underpinnings
from 1768–1826, and so offers readers a rich interpretive framework
from which to grasp the U.S. Supreme Court's (conservative)
decision in June 2008 . . . affirming the constitutional right of
individuals to keep guns at home.
*CHOICE*
Stephen P. Halbrook's new book represents the most careful and
well-thought-out study yet in support of the politically ascendant
claim that the Second Amendment, as originally intended and
understood, protects a right to own guns for purposes other than
service in the lawful militia.
*American Historical Review*
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