… the elections would mean losing not only power but wealth: property and business rights. The elections thus become a … with the authority to mobilize the armed forces in the event of an external threat to the nation, he has proven …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… community enmasse justify people in arming to defend their property against threatened mob violence,–under such … irresistible force of circumstances or of argument, of the truth or particular doctrines. It is a spirit which has …