Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect?

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"Exploring how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms, the selections expose readers to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience."--BOOK JACKET.