Search Results for: hana

… dispute is very similar to one of the issues that began the Revolutionary War.
The imposition of what was considered unfair taxes. Again, if the federal government at the time had followed the approach of the colonial script (and followed Pennsylvania’s approach to managing the script, as they were the most skilled colony in this regard) rather than allowing Hamilton to hand the First Bank of the United States over to private interests, they would have realized that they did not need to impose this tax.
In both rebellions and the Fries’ Rebellion, another tax rebellion in which they

… the citizens of the colonies demanding the right to arms. One of the primary reasons was to defend against Indians. However, the effectiveness of ordinary everyday citizens against Indians is questioned in the following quotation.
But for the most part, the settlers did not fight the Indians very often. They handed that task whenever possible to highly trained individuals, the frontier rangers and military who fought like Native Americans. They did so not with rifles, but mainly axes and knives. And of course, British military had use of the bayonet. – Revolutionary War Journal
Really? Well the laws from many states …

… so much story to be told that the production team and actors of the series proved they could tell.

George Mason is nowhere in the series.
Hamilton is only explored in broad outlines.
Jefferson has some good scenes, but so much is unexplored.
James Madison, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, John Dickinson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Rush, John Marshal, John Jay barely have any coverage. Although they, of course, are in some scenes, they are not memorable.

I believe the US government should have commissioned many more mini-series from this excellent team to explore so much more of the …

… Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field.
The estimate of

… with th few instances when England had standing armies solidified an already intense disdain for them. There were a variety of reasons many Englishmen hated standing armies. Soldiers serving in the army came from poor backgrounds and were likely to be criminals. The army under Elizabeth used a “recruitment system riddled with corruption and graft and operated so that vagabonds, misfits, and prisoners, who traded their sentence for service in the army, filled the regiments.”16 Elizabeth even said that the men in her army were “‘thieves [who] ought to hang.’”17 This conscription method continued well into the seventeenth