| Description |
1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why violent protest? -- Theoretical background -- Chapter synopsis -- Theoretical frames -- Theoretical presumptions -- 1 Constitutional morality -- Liberal democratic theory: a very brief overview -- Moral grounds and constitutional morality -- Difficulties with constitutional moral principles -- Chapter 1 conclusion -- 2 Legitimacy -- Introduction -- Conceptions of legitimacy -- Consent -- Sociological theories -- Normative rationality -- Legitimacy claims -- Legitimation and constitutionality |
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Limitations to this concept -- State legitimacy -- Chaos -- Does a poor legitimacy claim generate automatic duties to disobey? -- Prima facie duties of obedience and "everyday law" -- Amoral constitutions and states -- Chapter 2 conclusion -- 3 Protest as a legitimacy counterclaim in democratic constitutions -- Protest: a brief theoretical overview -- Protest, constitutional morality, and legitimacy claims -- Caveats -- Illustrative cases of legitimacy claims in protest -- Chapter 3 conclusion -- 4 Violent protest as a legitimacy counterclaim in democratic constitutions -- Overview |
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Definitions of violence -- The roles of political violence -- Violent protests as legitimacy counterclaims: the language of violence -- State violence -- Chapter 4 conclusion -- 5 General limitations to violent protest -- "General and specific" limitations to political violence -- General limitations to violence in protest -- Illegality -- Violence as innately immoral -- Nonviolence as preference -- Needlessness -- Instrumentality -- Social cohesion -- Chapter 5 conclusion: learning from limitations -- 6 Specific limitations to the legitimacy of violent protest |
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"Legitimate" state monopolies on violence -- The liberty objection -- The rule of law or justice objection -- The democracy objection -- Chapter 6 conclusion: justifying violent protest -- Conclusions -- The US Capitol incident and beyond -- One last comment: passing on the torch -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Civil disobedience-Law and legislation
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Demonstrations-Law and legislation
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Civil disobedience -- Law and legislation
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Demonstrations -- Law and legislation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000832303 |
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1000832309 |
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