TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wills,Garry
TI  - A necessary evil: A history of American distrust of government 
SN  - 0684844893
AV  - 002 E 183 W741n 1999
U1  - 973 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 1. Revolutionary myths.  Minutemen -- Term limits -- 2. Constitutional myths.  Sovereign states -- Checking efficiency -- Co-equal branches -- The uses of faction -- Bill of Rights -- No standing army -- 3. Nullifiers.  John Taylor of Caroline : father of nullification -- Jefferson : prophet of nullification -- Madison : abettor of nullification -- Nullification North : Hartford Convention -- Nullification South : John C. Calhoun -- -- Academic nullifiers -- 4. Seceders.  Civil War -- 5. Insurrectionists.  From Daniel Shays to Timothy McVeigh -- Academic insurrectionists -- 6. Vigilantes.  Groups : from regulators to clinic bombings -- Individuals : frontier -- Individuals : NRA -- 7. Withdrawers.  Individuals : from Thoreau to Mencken -- Groups : from Brook Farm to hippie communes -- 8. Disobeyers.  From Dr. King to SDS -- 9. A necessary good.  The uses of government -- The uses of fear
N2  - The author blames American's long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers
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