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Not surprisingly, it was the most extreme among them who attracted the lion's share of attention.Equally disturbing and largely overlooked amid the growing publicity was a shared belief among the various militia factions that civilians had a right - even a duty - to take up arms against what they saw as the wanton exercise of unconstitutional power by the federal government. In the years following the government's actions at Ruby Ridge, in 1992, and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, it was this concept, Robert Churchill argues, that played the greatest role in the growth of the American militia movement.Churchill uses three case studies to identify the origins of the militia movement: Fries' Rebellion in Pennsylvania at the end of the eighteenth century, the Sons of Liberty Conspiracy in Civil War-era Indiana and Illinois, and the Black Legion in Michigan and Ohio during the Depression. Building on extensive interviews with militia members, the author places the contemporary militia movement in the context of earlier insurrectionary movements that, clinging to a libertarian interpretation of the American Revolution, used force to resist the authority of the Federal Government.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50049350009105,"sku":"CIN0472116827G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52653658833169,"sku":"CIN0472116827VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472116827.jpg?v=1750781961"},{"product_id":"underground-railroad-and-the-geography-of-violence-in-antebellum-america-book-robert-h-churchill-9781108733465","title":"The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America","description":"As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. 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