Armed citizens : the road from ancient Rome to the Second Amendment

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Full Title:: Armed citizens : the road from ancient Rome to the Second Amendment / Noah Shusterman

Subjects:: United States.Constitution.2nd Amendment--History
Firearms--Law and legislation--United States--History
Gun control--United States--History
Firearms--Law and legislation--History
Firearms ownership--History
Gun control--History

Table of Contents:: 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.
Summary:: "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." It focuses on ten events, from antiquity to the Age of Revolutions, in which ideas about citizenship and the comparative benefits of militias versus standing/professional armies evolved together"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
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