An Oration, Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of Keene, June 30, 1788; To Celebrate the Ratification of the Federal Constitution by the State of New-Hampshire. by Aaron Hall, M.A. Member of the Late State Convention


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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W010793 Half-title: Rev. Mr. Hall's oration, delivered June 30, 1788. Keene: state of New-Hampshire: Printed by James D. Griffith, M, DCC, LXXXVIII. [1788]. 15[1]p.; 4°










Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, Published During Its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788


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Ford, Paul Leicester. Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, Published During Its Discussion by the People 1787-1788. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888. viii, 451 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-25089. ISBN 1-886363-95-1. Cloth. $75. * A collection of rare pamphlets that treat the question of the Constitution, with annotations and a bibliography by Ford, author of a bibliography of Franklin's works. "Recommended by Warren for 'The sources from which interpretations of the meaning of the provisions of the Constitution (U.S.) have been obtained at various times in the past...' Warren, The Making of the Constitution 784." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 375.



















Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea


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"Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea recasts the gun debate by showing its importance to the future of democracy and the modern regulatory state. Until now, gun rights advocates had effectively co-opted the language of liberty and democracy and made it their own. This book is an important first step in demonstrating how reasonable gun control is essential to the survival of democracy and ordered liberty." ---Saul Cornell, Ohio State University When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. They argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government. In the past decade, this view of the proper relationship between government and individual rights and the insistence on a role for private violence in a democracy has been co-opted by the conservative movement. As a result, it has spread beyond extreme militia groups to influence state and national policy. In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson set the record straight. They challenge the proposition that more guns equal more freedom and expose Insurrectionism as a true threat to freedom in the United States today. Joshua Horwitz received a law degree from George Washington University and is currently a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Casey Anderson holds a law degree from Georgetown University and is currently a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C.