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The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies

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Joshua Mawhorter

Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This reality became concrete in the Newburgh conspiracy in 1783.

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