Book Review
On a Militia Mission
Historian and attorney Edwin Vieira, Jr. has authored a tome on the still-valid purpose of state militias, how they’ve been undermined, and how they could be reinstituted. ...
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The Sword and Sovereignty, by Edwin Vieira, Jr., House of a Thousand Suns, 2012, 2,304 pages, CD-ROM.
“What degree of madness,” James Madison asks in The Federalist, No. 46, “could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity?” The unthinkable excess Madison refers to is the federal government’s accumulation of all power and obliteration of state sovereignty.
In that essay, Madison lists five assumptions upon which his faith in his descendants was built.
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