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University of Tennessee College of Law

1996

Reynolds

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It Takes A Militia: A Communitarian Case For Compulsory Arms Bearing, Glenn Reynolds, Brannon Denning Jan 1996

It Takes A Militia: A Communitarian Case For Compulsory Arms Bearing, Glenn Reynolds, Brannon Denning

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In this Essay, the authors demonstrate that Communitarians and militias actually have more in common than it might at first appear. Summarizing the Communitarian agenda, the authors note that Communitarians speak a language that would be readily understood by the Framers, who saw militias as an important vehicle through which civic virtue could be transmitted.


It Takes A Militia: A Communitarian Case For Compulsory Arms Bearing, Glenn Harlan Reynolds Jan 1996

It Takes A Militia: A Communitarian Case For Compulsory Arms Bearing, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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In this Essay, the authors demonstrate that Communitarians and militias actually have more in common than it might at first appear. Summarizing the Communitarian agenda, the authors note that Communitarians speak a language that would be readily understood by the Framers, who saw militias as an important vehicle through which civic virtue could be transmitted.