Uncivil disobedience [electronic resource] : studies in violence and democratic politics / Jennet Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970-
2008
HN90.V5 K53 2008eb
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Title Uncivil disobedience [electronic resource] : studies in violence and democratic politics / Jennet Kirkpatrick.
Author Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970-
ISBN 9780691137094 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691137099 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691138770 (pbk. : alk. paper)
069113877X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781400828869 (e-book)
Publication Details Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language English
Description x, 139 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HN90.V5 K53 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.6/20973
Summary "Uncivil Disobedience examines 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 abolitionism. She argues that the groups behind these violent episodes are often motivated by admirable democratic ideas of popular power and autonomy. Kirkpatrick shows how, in this respect, they are not so unlike the much-admired adherents of nonviolent civil disobedience, yet she reveals how those who engage in violent disobedience use these admirable democratic principles as a justification for terrorism and killing. She uses a "bottom-up" analysis of events to explain how this transformation takes place, paying close attention to what members of these groups do and how they think about the relationship between citizens and the law." "Uncivil Disobedience calls for a new vision of liberal democracy where the rule of the people and the rule of law are recognized as fundamental ideals, and where neither is triumphant or transcendent."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-131) and index.
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Violence, American style
Frontier vigilance committees
Southern lynch mobs
Militant abolitionists
A nation of people or laws.

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