Federalism Disarmed: Power, Militias, and the Fragility of American Democracy. Civic Sense Series, #8

Federalism Disarmed: Power, Militias, and the Fragility of American DemocracyFrom Lexington Green to Little Rock, from the antebellum muster fields to the National Guard deployments of the modern era, the history of American militias tells a story far larger than muskets, uniforms, or parades. It is the story of federalism itself: how power was divided, contested, and ultimately centralized. Federalism Disarmed argues that the rise and fall of state militias is not a dusty chapter in military history but a key to understanding both why the Civil War could erupt so quickly and why states today are powerless to resist an increasingly authoritarian federal government.