Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 15:57:36 EDT
From: mr@gonix.gonix.com (Mike Riddle)
To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com
Subject: [BOOK] Was: Re: 2nd Amendment Commentary


On Fri, 28 Apr 1995 15:07:31 -0400 bglover wrote in NOBAN:

>The militia is not a standing Army, US Code defines it
>as the citizens at large not attached to any organized
>government group. In fact, government employees, Army
>types or otherwise, in the militia would be an oxymoron.

At least in this case, the US Code not so much defines "militia" as
recgonizes the common-law definition.  Which leads to my main purpose for
writing, to remind the list of Professor Joyce Malcolm's excellent
treatise "To Keep and Bear Arms."

>From locis.loc.gov:

Malcolm, Joyce Lee.
  To keep and bear arms : the origins of an Anglo-American right / Joyce 
Lee Malcolm.  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.  xii, 
232 p. ; 25 cm.

LC CALL NUMBER: KF4558 2nd .M35 1994

SUBJECTS:
  Firearms--Law and legislation--United States--History.
  Firearms--Law and legislation--England--History.
  United States--Constitutional law--Amendments--2nd.
  United States--Constitutional history.


DEWEY DEC:  344.73/0533/09  347.30453309 dc20

NOTES:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-223) and index.

ISBN:  0674893069 (acid-free paper)



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