That Every Man Be Armed

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Summary: A book everyone should read
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From the back cover:

"'That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right' is the most comprehensive work ever written on the right to keep and bear arms, which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Its author, attorney Stephen P. Halbrook, traces the philosophical, historical, and legal roots of the right of the citizen to have arms, beginning in ancient Greece and carrying the analysis forward to legal and policy controversies of the 1980s."

Halbrook, a renowned constitutional scholar and attorney, has often testified before the Congress and the United States Supreme Court on the subject of the right of citizens to be armed, a constitutional guarantee which is under attack today by the political far left.

This book is liberally documented and footnoted, and is truly a scholarly exposition. He covers the subject from Aristotle, to Rome, to old England, through our own beginnings as a nation, and on through the current political debate.

His coverage of the Common Law of England, through the tradition of the armed freeman in the United States, the American revolution and legal citations from Coke to Blackstone is thorough and complete.

The title, "That every man be armed," is from a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry, the great American patriot from the Revolutionary War period, who said "The great object is, that every man be armed..."

Halbrook includes many other quotations by historical figures from our past, as well as lengthy dissections of Supreme Court (and other court) cases, the "bottom line" of which is the inescapable conclusion that the founders of our Constitution, and especially our Bill of Rights, did indeed intend that it be the right of all American citizens to own and carry upon their persons, personal firearms.

Joseph Pierre,
Author of THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS: Our Journey Through Eternity