Militia

Saul Cornell’s book titled “A Well Regulated Militia” explains the right of a citizen to bear arm. An important law made for the protection of rights for citizens of the United State is the second Amendment. The second amendment allowed people to maintain the security of their families, and properties. Citizens can also arm themselves in other to be part of a militia which is well regulated. The people of the United State share different views of the main reason this law became part of the…

Revolution was fought by small groups of militia. The militia was emergency soldiers with little military training whose goal was to protect their towns from foreign invasions. The Minutemen of Massachusetts were one of the most well-known militia groups and were comprised of men between the ages of 16 and 60. The Minutemen were well-trained and drilled between the Boston Tea Party and the battles of Lexington and Concord. This group of men was different than other militia groups in that they…

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(US Const. amend. II) The meaning of this amendment to the United States Constitution has been heavily debated topic for decades. For me, the meaning of the Second Amendment was never controversial because I grew up in a household where my family held in high regard the rights granted to us by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. However…

presidency, “the number of radical hate groups and militias have exploded in reaction to the changing makeup of America” (Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics) allowing the perception to rise that most members are anti-Semitic towards racial groups. In fact, the NAACP released a report in 2010 stating they had found major relationships between, “various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations, and militias” (Tea Party Nationalism). Since 1995, hundreds of…

million soldiers (Calabresi & Bobbit, 1978). To supplement this demand in man power, congress passed the Militia Act of 1862 which empowered the President to direct the States to utilize drafts of militia if a state did not fulfill the quotas for the Army; furthermore, the act was the beginning of the transition from state to federal authority in raising an army (Perri, 2013). Following the Militia Act, Congress passed the…

put in play to only permit an armed and "well-regulated militia" to serve as protector of the citizens in case of domestic revolt or rebellions as well as from oppressive rule from the national government. In spite of the militias weakness shown in the revolutionary war, the Americans persisted in being convinced that the need of "well-regulated militia"would result in the failure of the republican government. A well-regulated militia would not only be subjected to the protecting of the…

The Pope County Militia War was a conflict between the reconstruction government of the state and county partisans, some of them former confederates who opposed reconstruction. Pope County was lacking a large slave economy. In 1865 governor Isaac Murphy appointed Archibald Dodson Napier a former federal officer as a sheriff of Pope County. On October 25, 1865 he and his deputy Albert Parks were shot by an ambush while they were riding horseback along the old Springfield road. The man who…

in controle of the regime-held areas? When you look at the different militias who are operating on the side of the regime, were do the main fault-lines lie? Are their certain”types”? Which militias would you label as the most relevant? To which exent these miltias are loyal to the regime? How does this system of loyalty works? What do they have to offer to each other? How do you see the military capacities of these militias? Are they rather local, defensive forces, or do some of them have…

to resist the enforcement of alterations made to the colonial government after the Boston Tea party. The locals responded by organising an illegal patriotic government which was known as the Massachusetts provincial congress. They encouraged local militia to train for potential attacks and succeeded in controlling areas outside Boston. The British declared…

Perhaps the biggest factor of militia resistance to recruitment into the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War was the militia troops’ “small-producers” creed, which also impacted their religious economic, and political beliefs, as being self-sufficient (Moreland & Terrar, 2010). A large number of the population were farmers, who lived off the land and had very little to gain from war or any other incentives to join the Continental Army. They used their militias only to protect…