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RESEARCH ARTICLE
St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty,”
April 1, 2007
By Stephen P. Halbrook
Also published in Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy  « Show Fewer
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This article was originally published in the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy.
Stephen P. Halbrook, St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing “The True Palladium of Liberty,” 3 Tenn. J.L. & Pol’y 183, 183-218 (2007).
Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the Independent books The Right to Bear Arms, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, Gun Control in the Third Reich, The Founders’ Second Amendment and That Every Man Be Armed.
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