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Armed Citizens - The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment (Hardcover)
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Armed Citizens - The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment (Hardcover)
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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.
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