Armed Citizens : The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment /

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"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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Autor principal: Shusterman, Noah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Constitution. > 2nd Amendment > History.
Constitution (United States)
Gun control.
Firearms ownership.
Firearms > Law and legislation.
Gun control > History.
Firearms ownership > History.
Firearms > Law and legislation > History.
Gun control > United States > History.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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