My initial view that Trump was covered by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was formed because I believed then, and do still now believe, that the events of January 6, 2021 were an "insurrection." Daniel Webster's 1st edition of his Dictionary of American English, which had been published in 1828, and would have been authoritative to the Framers' of the Fourteenth Amendment, defines the word "insurrection" as follows:
"INSURREC'TION, noun [Latin insurgo; in and surgo, to rise.]
- A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
