Uncivil Disobedience Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics

Name: Uncivil Disobedience Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
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ISBN: 9780691138770

ISBN-10: 069113877X

ISBN-13: 9780691138770

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jennet Kirkpatrick

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Uncivil Disobedienceexamines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and institutions as limitations on the will of the people. Kirkpatrick looks at some of the most explosive instances of uncivil disobedience in American history: the contemporary militia movement, Southern lynch mobs, frontier vigilantism, and militant…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Warts and All



Violence, American Style



Frontier Vigilance Committees



Southern Lynch Mobs



Militant Abolitionists


Conclusion: A Nation of People or Laws


Sources Cited


Index