Sentence examples for insurrection act from inspiring English sources

Whoever in the Bush Administration hesitated to invoke the Insurrection Act was partaking of a reflexive anti-governmentalism that pervades the Administration.

The British government, threatened by internal conspiracy and foreign invasion, displayed a coercive determination, passing an Insurrection Act in 1796 and suspending the Habeas Corpus Act.

It's no accident that all three invocations of the Insurrection Act had to do with the American dilemma: throughout our history, the moments of greatest contention about federal power have involved race.

The other, the Insurrection Act of 1807, long contained a limited exception to posse comitatus for putting down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion, where a state is violating federal law or depriving people of constitutional rights.

If I invoked the Insurrection Act against her wishes, the world would see a male Republican president usurping the authority of a female Democratic governor by declaring an insurrection in a largely African American city.

While the president technically has the authority to activate the guard without the governor's consent under a federal law known as the Insurrection Act, that law essentially requires him to be putting down a rebellion to do so.

Rather, as he helpfully clarified in 1927, it is "an insurrection, an act of violence".

Rather, as he helpfully clarified in 1927, it is "an insurrection, an act of violence".… What did the American Revolution look like?

If the Badrs continue to withhold support from the Mahdi insurrection, or act to block it, they might gain more power under constitutional rule.

To be crystal clear - I am NOT advocating or inciting you to undertake any illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup.

For all his mild benevolence, he condoned the use of violence in the struggle for freedom and equality, and, during his early years as an anarchist militant, he was among the most vigorous exponents of "propaganda by the deed"—acts of insurrection that would supplement oral and written propaganda and help to awaken the rebellious instincts of the people.