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  2. Violence in literature - Wikipedia

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    Because violence is understood as the harm that injures, destroys, or kills, disease can be included in its definition. [1] In fiction, the ruling as to whether sickness is authorial is similar to that for nature. Heart attacks, strokes, and other types of sudden afflictions may or may not be incidental.

  3. Monopoly on violence - Wikipedia

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    While the monopoly on violence as the defining conception of the state was first described in sociology by Max Weber in his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919), [1] the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to French jurist and political philosopher Jean Bodin's 1576 work Les ...

  4. Imminent lawless action - Wikipedia

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    Under the imminent lawless action test, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if the speaker intends to incite a violation of the law that is both imminent and likely. While the precise meaning of "imminent" may be ambiguous in some cases, the court provided later clarification in Hess v.

  5. Brandenburg v. Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court interpreting the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1] The Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".

  6. Assault (tort) - Wikipedia

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    The conduct forbidden by this tort is an act that threatens violence.' [2] In criminal law an assault is defined as an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury.

  7. Authority (textual criticism) - Wikipedia

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    These intentions could be initial, medial or final, but intentionalist editors (most notably represented by Fredson Bowers and G. Thomas Tanselle editing school) generally attempt to retrieve final authorial intentions. The concept is of particular importance for textual critics, whether they believe that authorial intention is recoverable, or ...

  8. Fighting words - Wikipedia

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    Fighting words are spoken words intended to provoke a retaliatory act of violence against the speaker. In United States constitutional law , the term describes words that inflict injury or would tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace .

  9. Vigilantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Messner, Steven F., Eric P. Baumer, and Richard Rosenfeld, "Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment," Law & Society Review (September 2006) online; Nisbett, Richard E. Culture of honor: The psychology of violence in the South (Routledge, 2018). Noble, Madeleine M.