Guns, democracy, and the insurrectionist idea / Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
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What is the insurrectionist idea? -- What is the insurrectionist agenda? -- Who are the insurrectionists? -- The founding -- The Civil War and Reconstruction -- The rise of the Third Reich -- The meaning of freedom -- One gun, one vote? -- Democracy and the monopoly on force -- Insurrectionism and individual rights -- Effective democratic institutions.
When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind--freedom from government oppression. They argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government. In the past decade, this view of the proper relationship between government and individual rights and the insistence on a role for private violence in a democracy has been co-opted by the conservative movement. As a result, it has spread beyond extreme militia groups to influence state and national policy. In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson set the record straight. They challenge the proposition that more guns equal more freedom and expose Insurrectionism as a true threat to freedom in the United States today.
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