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

by Shusterman, Noah, author.

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.

viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

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.

"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"---Provided by publisher.

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