insurrection
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The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to deploy the National Guard “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2025
Rion Amilcar Scott won the PEN/Bingham Prize for his collection Insurrections, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2016.
From Slate • May 17, 2021
Insurrections - no matter their size or success - create substantial “to-do” lists for governments in their wake.
From Washington Times • Jan. 12, 2021
None of these writers appear in Insurrections of the Mind.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2015
An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections and Others which have Occurred or been attempted in the United States and Elsewhere during the Last Two Centuries.
From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin
Vocabulary lists containing insurrection
The Constitution of the United States
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Born a Crime
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"The Declaration of Independence," Vocabulary from the historical document
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