On March 3, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson put his signature on the law known as the Insurrection Act.
Here is the original language of the Act signed by Jefferson:
An Act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.
APPROVED, March 3, 1807.
In the 19th century, it was called upon when the United States wanted to suppress American Indian sovereignty. The law was also the legal basis for the Civil War, as it gave Abraham Lincoln powers to send federal troops into Southern states.
With a few exceptions, the law has historically been used to make a federal military response to labor disputes or anti-racism protests.
Andrew Jackson used the law to put down Nat Turner’s Rebellion and to put down a revolt by C&O Canal laborers in Maryland.
Ulysses S. Grant used the law at least three times during Reconstruction to respond to violent racist rioting by the Klan and other white supremacists. Grover Cleveland cited it to respond to the Pullman Strike in 1894 and Woodrow Wilson used the power to send troops to the 1914 Colorado Coalfield War.
Eisenhower and Kennedy called on the Act to enforce desegregation and defend against white aggression. Johnson used the act to quell uprisings in April 1968, in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. George H. W. Bush used the Act to send troops to Los Angeles during the 1992 Rodney King protests.
The original purposes of the insurrection act were purely patriotic in my opinion, especially when you look at the circumstantial evidence of what was taking place at the time and how history unfolded over the 1800’s into our current time..
After the revolution, The British were trying to subvert their way back into having authority over this country, and the reason why our American and patriotic government was trying to put into place failsafes to protect us.
Hence the title of nobilities act or the original 13th amendment.
The situation devolved into the war of 1812, where they tried to just take it by force and failed
After the British lost, they began conspiring
Over the course of the following years The British backed subversion coupled with propaganda and massive financially backed political campaigns continued and led us to a BAR member with the title of esquire, who swore an oath to a foreign agency, unlawfully obtaining the presidency which then led to the entire corporate construct and BAR takeover of our judicial system as well the establishment of a private central bank.
They then began manipulating language laws and using these acts to then justify using our government as a weapon to subdue all peoples and protect the corporate Barons and their for profit business ventures which included taking advantage of the less fortunate.
If this is connected to Howard Zinn, which from certain indicators in their titles and names it does appear to be, I would be careful of solely using this as historical research. From what I have gathered he is another revisionist who uses truth and then twists and manipulates it to serve the disingenuous purpose of promoting distrust and hatred towards this country, it’s laws and its founders.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/insurrection-act-of-1807/
On March 3, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson put his signature on the law known as the Insurrection Act.
Here is the original language of the Act signed by Jefferson:
An Act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.
APPROVED, March 3, 1807.
In the 19th century, it was called upon when the United States wanted to suppress American Indian sovereignty. The law was also the legal basis for the Civil War, as it gave Abraham Lincoln powers to send federal troops into Southern states.
With a few exceptions, the law has historically been used to make a federal military response to labor disputes or anti-racism protests.
Andrew Jackson used the law to put down Nat Turner’s Rebellion and to put down a revolt by C&O Canal laborers in Maryland.
Ulysses S. Grant used the law at least three times during Reconstruction to respond to violent racist rioting by the Klan and other white supremacists. Grover Cleveland cited it to respond to the Pullman Strike in 1894 and Woodrow Wilson used the power to send troops to the 1914 Colorado Coalfield War.
Eisenhower and Kennedy called on the Act to enforce desegregation and defend against white aggression. Johnson used the act to quell uprisings in April 1968, in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. George H. W. Bush used the Act to send troops to Los Angeles during the 1992 Rodney King protests.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-case-of-the-missing-13th-amendment-to-the-constitution
The original purposes of the insurrection act were purely patriotic in my opinion, especially when you look at the circumstantial evidence of what was taking place at the time and how history unfolded over the 1800’s into our current time..
After the revolution, The British were trying to subvert their way back into having authority over this country, and the reason why our American and patriotic government was trying to put into place failsafes to protect us.
Hence the title of nobilities act or the original 13th amendment.
The situation devolved into the war of 1812, where they tried to just take it by force and failed
After the British lost, they began conspiring
Over the course of the following years The British backed subversion coupled with propaganda and massive financially backed political campaigns continued and led us to a BAR member with the title of esquire, who swore an oath to a foreign agency, unlawfully obtaining the presidency which then led to the entire corporate construct and BAR takeover of our judicial system as well the establishment of a private central bank.
They then began manipulating language laws and using these acts to then justify using our government as a weapon to subdue all peoples and protect the corporate Barons and their for profit business ventures which included taking advantage of the less fortunate.
If this is connected to Howard Zinn, which from certain indicators in their titles and names it does appear to be, I would be careful of solely using this as historical research. From what I have gathered he is another revisionist who uses truth and then twists and manipulates it to serve the disingenuous purpose of promoting distrust and hatred towards this country, it’s laws and its founders.
Every great lie is seeded in truth.