The American Militia Phenomenon

It is the intent of this book to argue and substantiate that contemporary Militias in the United States today can trace their religious, racial, ideological, socio-cultural, and Constitutional roots all the way back to the earliest Colonial, pre-revolutionary, revolutionary, and post-revolutionary armed citizen groups that fought against what they perceived to be oppression from whatever direction it came at them. This historical, political, racial, religious, and economic inquiry investigates the militia phenomenon from an academic political science perspective. Through documented references to the political, religious, doctrinaire ideological and socio-cultural events of their day this study will provide the nexus between the basic issues of early American armed resistance to government oppression and repression in behalf of what they believed and that of the religious, racial, and socio-cultural motivations that still drive the majority of contemporary American militias today.