revolutionary war

Simply agreeing with America’s core principles, he said, is both overinclusive and underinclusive—overinclusive in that many foreigners may agree with the principles but aren’t Americans, and underinclusive in that such a definition would reject many people the Anti-Defamation League “would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.”

But experts caution that the military is not trained to keep law and order, and that the country has a strong tradition against domestic deployments dating to the Revolutionary War.

Because the Revolutionary War had destroyed the American monetary system, struggling backcountry farmers became ensnared in debt to urban elites.

Robert Anderson, son of a Revolutionary War officer, a cousin of Chief Justice John Marshall, and a West Point graduate from the loyal slave state of Kentucky.

It’s a very close-to-the-bone feeling of political desperation in the midst of a revolutionary war, to say we’re gonna write down what our rights are.