The professors (as lawyers always do) were merely looking at legal literature to see what other lawyers said/wrote. With Tench Coxe's commentaries (along with the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers) we have an actual window into what those guys sweating buckets that summer were actually THINKING. Big, BIG, nay YUGE difference. Not that those who would disarm the populous give a tinker's dam.
I was glad to see the Tench Coxe article mention the disarmament of the citizens of the cities of Boston and Philadelphia when they were occupied by the British military. People remember the Battle of Lexington and Concord, where seizure of locally owned stored military supplies was the objective of the British Army which was thwarted by local militia action.
Regarding the first article, since I did not know what COEME and COFEA are, I searched online and found this:
The professors (as lawyers always do) were merely looking at legal literature to see what other lawyers said/wrote. With Tench Coxe's commentaries (along with the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers) we have an actual window into what those guys sweating buckets that summer were actually THINKING. Big, BIG, nay YUGE difference. Not that those who would disarm the populous give a tinker's dam.
ReplyDeleteI was glad to see the Tench Coxe article mention the disarmament of the citizens of the cities of Boston and Philadelphia when they were occupied by the British military. People remember the Battle of Lexington and Concord, where seizure of locally owned stored military supplies was the objective of the British Army which was thwarted by local militia action.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the first article, since I did not know what COEME and COFEA are, I searched online and found this:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38422