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the slow-motion gamble where you'd better win, because losers get a different word: treason.
means An open, organized uprising against an established government or authority — a revolt that goes beyond protest into outright defiance of power.
from From Latin insurgere, "to rise up," built from in- ("upon, against") plus surgere ("to rise") — the same surgere that gives us surge and resurrection. The Latin noun insurrectio carried the literal sense of "a rising up," and it came into English through Old French insurrection in the late medieval period. So the word is, at root, simply people getting to their feet against those above them — the menace lives in the direction they're facing.
- winner's spelling
- successful ones get renamed revolution
- legal teeth
- US Constitution's 14th Amendment bars insurrectionists from office
- oldest target
- taxes triggered Rome's revolts and 1791's Whiskey Rebellion
- the act
- US law makes inciting it a federal crime
- etymology
- Latin insurgere, literally to rise up against
january 6 capitol attack — 2021 storming of us capitol by trump supporters, 140 police officers injured
indian rebellion of 1857 — major uprising against british east india company rule across northern india
warsaw ghetto uprising — 1943 jewish resistance against nazi deportations in warsaw, poland