JOURNAL ARTICLE

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

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 2. P. 319 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Parkinson, Robert G. 3 of 3

Abstract

In America, however, exclusions for who was allowed to be armed were based on race, as seen in his chapters on Bacon's Rebellion (militias encouraged to attack Native peoples) and the Stono Rebellion (militias encouraged to attack insurrectionary slaves). Shusterman begins narrating the path of how eighteenth-century Americans inherited from ancient Rome an ideology that celebrated militias. With the "standing army controversy" of 1697 (and not the Glorious Revolution), Shusterman contends that the "intellectual foundation of militia advocacy" in England was in place (101). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/01, Vol. 56, Issue 2, p319
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.0016
  • Accession Number:162635009
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