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Article: Insurrections, Domestic
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INSURRECTIONS, DOMESTIC
INSURRECTIONS, DOMESTIC.
An insurrection is an uprising against government or civil authority. Inasmuch as local officials are always charged with intervening to curb behavior understood to be outside the law, the broadest conception of the term would include race and ethnic revolts, such as slave revolts, lynchings, and the New York Draft Riot of 1863 (which had a combination of causes); violent labor unrest; and popular assaults directly targeting the political process (that is, political violence encompassing a range of uprisings from Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1675 to anti-abortion violence in the 1980s and 1990s).Looked at this way, insurrections have ...
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