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... supplies sought by Great Britain , although they were able to hold fast to their refusal to raise a militia . After Wil- liam Penn's descendants abandoned the Quaker faith , the Pennsyl- vania proprietors came to favor a more aggressive ...
... supplies sought by Great Britain , although they were able to hold fast to their refusal to raise a militia . After Wil- liam Penn's descendants abandoned the Quaker faith , the Pennsyl- vania proprietors came to favor a more aggressive ...
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... supplies , test oaths , and control of the militia . At first , local Committees of Safety and later , wartime governors and legislatures , filled with a distrust of mili- tary power , resisted any encroachment upon their prerogatives ...
... supplies , test oaths , and control of the militia . At first , local Committees of Safety and later , wartime governors and legislatures , filled with a distrust of mili- tary power , resisted any encroachment upon their prerogatives ...
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... supply of officers for the United States army would not be diminished ' because the last two years of training , necessary to get an actual commission , are already voluntary at all institutions . ' The Christian Science Monitor , in ...
... supply of officers for the United States army would not be diminished ' because the last two years of training , necessary to get an actual commission , are already voluntary at all institutions . ' The Christian Science Monitor , in ...
Contents
The AngloAmerican Heritage | 3 |
The Founding Fathers Reaffirm Civil Supremacy | 18 |
The Defeat of the Federalist Military Plans | 32 |
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