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From Webster's Dictionary of 1828:
1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
Example: It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19.
It follows reasonably that the writers of the 14th Amendment defined "insurrection" in the manner above. Indeed, the last sentence indicates "insurrection" to be a slightly more general and encompassing term that includes sedition or rebellion as explained in the definition. When a piece of legislation does not define all its terms, legislative rules typically resort to a recognized dictionary definition. Or is the legislature required to establish an official state definition of every word to be used in its documents? Well yes, and that is why they adopt a recognized, publicly dictionary. It is legislative and legal negligence not to do so. And how are people to better understand each other without some reliance on a common language of well-defined words.
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From Webster's Dictionary of 1828:
1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
Example: It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19.
It follows reasonably that the writers of the 14th Amendment defined "insurrection" in the manner above. Indeed, the last sentence indicates "insurrection" to be a slightly more general and encompassing term that includes sedition or rebellion as explained in the definition. When a piece of legislation does not define all its terms, legislative rules typically resort to a recognized dictionary definition. Or is the legislature required to establish an official state definition of every word to be used in its documents? Well yes, and that is why they adopt a recognized, publicly dictionary. It is legislative and legal negligence not to do so. And how are people to better understand each other without some reliance on a common language of well-defined words.
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From Webster's Dictionary of 1828:
1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
Example: It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19.
It follows reasonably that the writers of the 14th Amendment defined "insurrection" in the manner above. Indeed, the last sentence indicates "insurrection" to be a slightly more general and encompassing term that includes sedition or rebellion as explained in the definition. When a piece of legislation does not define all its terms, legislative rules typically resort to a recognized dictionary definition. Or is the legislature required to establish an official state definition of every word to be used in its documents? Well yes, and that is why they adopt a recognized, publicly dictionary. It is legislative and legal negligence not to do so. And how are people to better understand each other without some reliance on a common language of well-defined words.
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