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Armed citizens : the road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment /

"This book traces the history of debates about citizen-soldiery, militias, and arms control over two thousand years, illustrating for a general readership what eighteenth-century militias were and why the founding fathers believed them to be "necessary to the security of a free state."...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shusterman, Noah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the long road to the Second Amendment
  • Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon : 49 BC
  • Niccolò Machiavelli retires to his estate : 1513
  • The fall of La Rochelle : 1628
  • England's Parliament debates the Militia Act : 1642
  • Bacon's rebels burn Jamestown to the ground : 1676
  • Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun publishes A discourse of government with relation to militias : 1698
  • The Stono Rebels head for Florida : 1739
  • The Minutemen turn back the Redcoats at Concord Bridge : 1775
  • Hamilton, Madison, and Jay publish The Federalist : 1787-1788
  • Congress amends the Constitution : 1789-1791
  • Epilogue : The long road from the Second Amendment.