A tract that was part of the intellectual foundation for the fear of standing armies.
Thomas Gordon lays out in very clear and uncertain terms the dangers, potential waste, and abuse that maintaining a standing army can create, as well as the possible ramifications and confident rebuttals to the counteracting fears of a nation without an army.
Gordon was no pacifist, but he did understand the danger that a sovereign with an army at his command in peacetime presented to the liberties of the sovereign's subjects.
1867. The Civil War is over. Yet there is much unrest and resentment that lives on throughout the land, and in the hearts of many... Marco steps out of the ashes of the war; a man turned bounty hunter had everything which mattered most to him violently stripped away. So he emerges with a burning desire like none other to find redemption, and a new purpose in life. He sets off i...
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