03232oam 22005174a 450 991052470580332120230320144204.01-4214-3219-6(CKB)4100000010460978(OCoLC)1128091298(MdBmJHUP)muse78160(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88880(EXLCZ)99410000001046097820100321d1974 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier"No Standing Armies!"The Antiarmy Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England /[by] Lois G. SchwoererJohns Hopkins University Press2019Baltimore,Johns Hopkins University Press[1974]©[1974]1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 210 pages))illustrations1-4214-3220-X 1-4214-3221-8 Originally published in 1974. In her study of primary materials in England and the United States, Schwoerer traces the origin, development, and articulation in both Parliament and in the popular press of the attitude opposing standing armies in seventeenth-century England and the American colonies. Central to the criticism of armies at that time was the conviction that ultimate military power should be vested in Parliament, not the Crown. Schwoerer shows how the many diverse elements of England's antimilitarism, including political principle, propaganda, parliamentary tactics, parochialism, and partisanship, hardened with every confrontation between the Crown or Protector and Parliament. The author finds a general predisposition to distrust professional soldiers early in the century, and from the 1620s onward she notes opposition to a standing army in times of peace. Highlighting the growth of the antimilitary tradition, Schwoerer traces the development of this attitude from the Petition of Right in 1628 to the 1641–1642 crisis over the Militia Bill/Ordinance, the military settlements of 1660 and 1689, and the climactic events of 1667–1699. Schwoerer shows how the anti-standing-army ideology affected the constitutional thinking of the American colonists and manifested itself in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She addresses timeless questions of how to provide for a nation's defense while preserving individual liberty, citizen responsibility for military service, and the relationship of executive and legislative authority over the army.Standing armyfast(OCoLC)fst01131496Civilizationfast(OCoLC)fst00862898Standing armyGreat BritainfastEnglandfastEnglandCivilization17th centuryGreat BritainHistoryStuarts, 1603-1714History.Military & defence strategyStanding army.Civilization.Standing army.Schwoerer Lois G268661MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524705803321"No Standing Armies!"2784187UNINA