0 an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
armed insurrection
1 an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government or ruler and take control of the country, usually by violence
In extreme cases of oppression "the right or even the duty of insurrection and regicide" was acknowledged.
The violent insurrections that swelled in the mid- to late-1960s created an opportunity to sharpen the connection of civil rights to crime.
There may have been another meeting, but if there was it was inconclusive, and the scheduled date for the insurrection passed without incident.
Just when the insurrection began has puzzled many, and in this book the authors provide the most sensible answer yet available.
Could insurrection have weighed, nonetheless, in the deliberations of the cabinet in its private meetings?
But they could also latch on to a more insurrectionary tradition harking back to the ' right of insurrection ' claimed by the sans-culottes during the 1790s.
Obviously local elites had little difficulty choosing which side to take once a popular insurrection broke out.
In the light of this last statement the official response to the attempted insurrection is particularly interesting.
