constitutional treatise. The book should generate a healthy debate
about the future of gun control in America.
[Malcolm] provides a skillful analysis of how the Englishmen's duty
to bear arms was transformed into a right to bear arms.
A wide audience, including social scientists, historians, lawyers,
and anyone interested in the gun-ownership debate, should welcome
this concise, well-written history.
Joyce Malcolm's book reminds us forcibly that arguments for gun
ownership were, until quite recently, respectable and persuasive,
and that gun control and peaceable behaviour appear to be unrelated
phenomena.
ÝMalcolm¨ provides a skillful analysis of how the Englishmen's duty
to bear arms was transformed into a right to bear arms. -- Robert
E. Shalhope "Journal of American History"
A work of genuine excellence, as persuasive in its argument as it
is unsettling in its implications...Malcolm's prose is both
vigorous and elegant, and occasionally even witty, a virtue rarely
to be found in a constitutional treatise. The book should generate
a healthy debate about the future of gun control in America. --
Douglas R. Egerton "American Historical Review"
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