Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

by Clayton E. Cramer

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Cramer's work examines the motivations and legislative history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons and establishes a previously unexplored link between these laws and efforts to suppress dueling in the southern back country. Earlier attempts to analyze these laws focused upon efforts to maintain slavery by severely restricting the rights of free blacks: if free blacks could not possess arms and lacked...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0275966151

ISBN13:9780275966157

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:Praeger

Length:192 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

19th Century Administrative Law Colonial Period Constitutional Law Customs & Traditions Education & Reference History Law Legal History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Textbooks

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