Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment by Noah Shusterman (review)

[...]Shusterman states in his opening sentence, "the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution no longer makes sense" (1). In some of the best analysis of the book, Shusterman explores the colonial experience that also informed and grounded the Whiggish embrace of militias at the start of...

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Published in:Eighteenth-century studies 2023-01, Vol.56 (2), p.319-321
Main Author: Parkinson, Robert G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
American Revolution
Citizenship
Ideology
Law enforcement
Militia groups
Race
Regulation
Roman civilization
White supremacy
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Summary:[...]Shusterman states in his opening sentence, "the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution no longer makes sense" (1). In some of the best analysis of the book, Shusterman explores the colonial experience that also informed and grounded the Whiggish embrace of militias at the start of the 1700s: the emergence of militias as enforcers of the racial order in America. Regulators usually called for more law and order, and often embodied themselves as armed groups to pressure colonial legal and political institutions to extend authority and institutions to them.
ISSN:0013-2586
1086-315X
1086-315X
DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.0016