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Tenth Amendment Center: The Struggle for American Independence: A Standing Military Presence

...from Tenth Amendment Center

In this episode, I articulate the historical reasons that standing military forces were considered despotic in the British tradition, and why the British constitutional system warded against them explicitly. I cover the military occupation by British forces in 1768, the constitutional ramifications of a standing army in peacetime, and the development of patriot boycotts of British products. While many of the histories of this time portray the antagonist against the British as a tax revolt, the open condemnation of standing armies reveals that there were other factors that created a schism between two different parts of the British Empire.

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Other recommended reading(s):

–Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

–Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Revolution: A Tory View

–Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty

 


Dave Benner
June 07, 2018 at 08:54AM

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