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Roots for the Anglo Elite - Kevin Phillips: The Cousins' War: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 707. $32.50.)
Michael A. Bellesiles
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The Review of Politics / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / Winter 2000

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05 August 2009, pp. 133-137
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William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman (eds.), Riot and Revelry in Early America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, $65.00). Pp. 316. ISBN 0271022191.
MICHAEL A. BELLESILES
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Journal of American Studies / Volume 37 / Issue 2 / August 2003

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04 September 2003, p. 353

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Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, $35.00). Pp. 722. ISBN 0 300 09137 0.
MICHAEL A. BELLESILES
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Journal of American Studies / Volume 37 / Issue 2 / August 2003

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04 September 2003, p. 325

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Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann, eds., The Many Legalities of Early America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 466. $59.95, cloth (ISBN 0–8078–2632–4); $22.50, paper (ISBN 0–8078–4964–2).
Michael A. Bellesiles
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Law and History Review / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / Summer 2003

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28 October 2011, pp. 416-417

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Creating Empires - British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. By Colin Kidd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 302. $59.95 (cloth). - The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. By Eliga H. Gould. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 262. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). - Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766. By Fred Anderson. New York: Knopf, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 862. $40.00 (cloth). - Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. By Joyce Appleby. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 322. $26.00 (cloth).
Michael A. Bellesiles
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Journal of British Studies / Volume 40 / Issue 4 / October 2001

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10 January 2014, pp. 585-605

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October 2001
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Lord Windlesham, Politics, Punishment, and Populism, New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. vi + 278. $35.00 (ISBN 0-19-511530-9).
Michael A. Bellesiles
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Law and History Review / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / Spring 2001

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28 October 2011, pp. 225-227

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Gun Laws in Early America: The Regulation of Firearms Ownership, 1607–1794
Michael A. Bellesiles
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Law and History Review / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / Fall 1998

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28 October 2011, pp. 567-589

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King James I stated the official position of the English governing elite on gun ownership succinctly. When it was suggested that more of England's subjects should enjoy the right to hunt and own firearms, James responded that “it is not fit that clowns should have these sports.”
Discussion of early American gun laws begins with consideration of the English legal heritage. In the last few years, adherents of the self-described “standard model” of the meaning of the Second Amendment have constructed a paradigm of an uninterrupted tradition of legally sanctioned individual gun ownership in America. Such a construction starts with the idea that the British brought an acceptance of the universal ownership of firearms with them to the Americas. That cultural norm gave form to the meaning of the Second Amendment, which institutionalized an individual right to bear arms for purposes of personal and communal defense and as a security against a tyrannical government. This history matters greatly to these scholars in establishing an original intent in the Second Amendment to protect an individual's right to own guns.

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Michael A. Bellesiles
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Law and History Review / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / Fall 1997

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28 October 2011, pp. 343-345

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Robert J. Cottrol, ed., Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment, New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. xlviii + 427. $18.95 (ISBN 0-8153-1666-6).
Michael A. Bellesiles
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Law and History Review / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / Spring 1997

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28 October 2011, pp. 203-205

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Joyce Lee Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 232. $29.95 (0-674-89306-9).
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Law and History Review / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / Fall 1996

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28 October 2011, pp. 382-384

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Roots for the Anglo Elite - Kevin Phillips: The Cousins' War: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 707. $32.50.)

William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman (eds.), Riot and Revelry in Early America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, $65.00). Pp. 316. ISBN 0271022191.

Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, $35.00). Pp. 722. ISBN 0 300 09137 0.

Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann, eds., The Many Legalities of Early America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 466. $59.95, cloth (ISBN 0–8078–2632–4); $22.50, paper (ISBN 0–8078–4964–2).

Lord Windlesham, Politics, Punishment, and Populism, New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. vi + 278. $35.00 (ISBN 0-19-511530-9).

Gun Laws in Early America: The Regulation of Firearms Ownership, 1607–1794

Reply to Malcolm

Robert J. Cottrol, ed., Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment, New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. xlviii + 427. $18.95 (ISBN 0-8153-1666-6).

Joyce Lee Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 232. $29.95 (0-674-89306-9).

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