Insurrection in a sentence as a noun

The government knows, as you do, that down that path lies insurrection.

You have to read "riot" in context of "insurrection.

Shooting civilians seems to produce insurrection not submission.

When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

It's like people preparing for zombies by buying water, freeze dried food, radios, shotguns, etc., when in fact they're at the same time preparing for the far more likely earthquake or civil insurrection.

The failure of the federal government to put down an internal insurrection was a major motivation reason for the calling of the constitutional convention.

In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with ******, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia.

Insurrection definitions

noun

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

See also: rebellion revolt rising uprising