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Lois Schwoerer has taken an intrinsically interesting topic and provided a great deal of fascinating and deeply researched information stretching back over five centuries. Thanks to this deep historical context, her book gives valuable insight into the current American debate on gun culture and the origin of 'the right to bear arms.'--Ian Gentles, Tyndale University College and Seminary, author of Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution

In her concise and colorful book, Lois G. Schwoerer tells the story about how England's own fascination with guns led it to adopt a right-to-have-arms provision in its Declaration of Rights of 1689, almost exactly one century before Americans adopted the Second Amendment in their Bill of Rights. What were the English thinking? Modern readers on both sides of the Atlantic will be in for an enjoyable ride and some real surprises.</p>--Carl Bogus, Roger Williams University, editor of <i>The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms</i>

In her concise and colorful book, Lois G. Schwoerer tells the story about how England's own fascination with guns led it to adopt a right-to-have-arms provision in its Declaration of Rights of 1689, almost exactly one century before Americans adopted the Second Amendment in their Bill of Rights. What were the English thinking? Modern readers on both sides of the Atlantic will be in for an enjoyable ride--and some real surprises.--Carl Bogus, Roger Williams University, editor of The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms Lois Schwoerer has taken an intrinsically interesting topic and provided a great deal of fascinating and deeply researched information stretching back over five centuries. Thanks to this deep historical context, her book gives valuable insight into the current American debate on gun culture and the origin of 'the right to bear arms.'--Ian Gentles, Tyndale University College and Seminary, author of Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution In her concise and colorful book, Lois G. Schwoerer tells the story about how England's own fascination with guns led it to adopt a right-to-have-arms provision in its Declaration of Rights of 1689, almost exactly one century before Americans adopted the Second Amendment in their Bill of Rights. What were the English thinking? Modern readers on both sides of the Atlantic will be in for an enjoyable ride and some real surprises.--Carl Bogus, Roger Williams University, editor of The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms Lois Schwoerer has taken an intrinsically interesting topic and provided a great deal of fascinating and deeply researched information stretching back over five centuries. Thanks to this deep historical context, her book gives valuable insight into the current American debate on gun culture and the origin of 'the right to bear arms.'--Ian Gentles, Tyndale University College and Seminary, author of Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution

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Lois G. Schwoerer is Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emerita of History at George Washington University, and Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the author of The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist, among other books.

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