Description:
Justifying Revolution explores how the American Revolution's opposing sides wrestled with thorny moral and legal questions. How could revolutionaries justify provoking a civil war, how should their opponents subdue the uprising, and how did military commanders restrain the ensuing violence?
Brief description: Glenn A. Moots is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Northwood University, Midland, Michigan, and the author of Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology.
Review Quotes: "Seldom do the essays in an edited collection cohere so well, treat the main topics so clearly, or meet the highest standards of writing and scholarship so consistently. This is the rare book that can be read with profit by undergraduate history students in both introductory and advanced courses; graduate students in history, political science, and international relations; law students; and experts in those fields, as well as the mythical intelligent general reader."-- History: Reviews of New Books