insurrectionist

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The case marked the first time the Supreme Court addressed the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

His lawyers claimed he was "not an insurrectionist" and requested that he serve no jail time.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

No one, he argues, feared an insurrectionist presidential candidate after 1865.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023

Before his sentencing, he said he was not an insurrectionist and took issue with how the media portrayed him following the riot.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

The leader, Denmark Vesey, is interesting as an intellectual insurrectionist just as the more famous Nat Turner is typical of the more fervent sort.

From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith