![]() | Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics Subjects: Political violence -- United States; Militia movements -- United States; Vigilance committees -- United States; Lynching -- United States; Antislavery movements -- United States; 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. Jennet Kirkpatrick is lecturer in political science at the University of Michigan. |
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