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Author | : Lawrence Delbert Cress |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469639963 |
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This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective army, but they realized that by its very nature the military could destroy freedom as well as preserve it. The security of the new nation was not in dispute but the nature of republicanism itself. Originally published 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Noah Shusterman |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813944627 |
Download Armed Citizens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens, Noah Shusterman explains for a general reader what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. Suggesting that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms, Shusterman begins with the lessons that the founding generation took from the history of Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s reinterpretation of those myths during the Renaissance. He then turns to the rise of France’s professional army during seventeenth-century Europe and the fear that it inspired in England. Shusterman shows how this fear led British writers to begin praising citizens’ militias, at the same time that colonial America had come to rely on those militias as a means of defense and as a system to police enslaved peoples. Thus the start of the Revolution allowed Americans to portray their struggle as a war of citizens against professional soldiers, leading the authors of the Constitution to place their trust in citizen soldiers and a "well-regulated militia," an idea that persists to this day.
Author | : H. Richard Uviller |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822330172 |
Download The Militia and the Right to Arms, Or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DIVProvides a historically grounded examination of the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment and an interpretation of the rights it safeguards (or doesn't) in the light of that historical understanding./div
Author | : Harry M. Kemp |
Publisher | : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1991-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780890158364 |
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Author | : Firmin DeBrabander |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300208936 |
Download Do Guns Make Us Free? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun rights movement headed by the National Rifle Association appears more intractable than ever in its fight against gun control laws. The core argument of Second Amendment advocates is that the proliferation of firearms is essential to maintaining freedom in America, providing private citizens with a defense against possible government tyranny, and safeguarding all our other rights. But is this argument valid? Do guns indeed make us free? Firmin DeBrabrander examines claims offered in favor of unchecked gun ownership in this insightful and eye-opening analysis, the first philosophical examination of every aspect of a contentious, uniquely American debate. By exposing the contradictions and misinterpretations prevalent in the case presented by gun rights supporters, this provocative volume concludes that an armed society is not a free society but one that ultimately discourages and, in fact, actively hinders democratic participation.
Author | : Maury Klein |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608194094 |
Download A Call to Arms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Author | : Richard Moody Swain |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 9780160937583 |
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In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
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Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780465021246 |
Download The Citizen's Constitution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this delightfully quick, witty, readable, and authoritative guide, Seth Lipsky, legendary newspaperman, places the United States Constitution and its clauses into context. In more than 300 sparkling annotations--fully updated for this paperback edition--The Citizen's Constitution draws on the writings of the Founders, case law from our greatest judges, and current events. Lipsky provides a no-nonsense, entertaining, and learned reference to the fundamental questions surrounding the document that governs how we govern our country.
Author | : Larry Pratt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Firearms |
ISBN | : 9781880692189 |
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The Constitution and Citizen Militias.
Author | : Larrie D. Ferreiro |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101910305 |
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.