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A coup is defined as an “unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government by a smallgroup.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » “CRS Report” on Honduras “Coup”: 2009

But if it was legal, by definition, it cannot be a coup, since a coup is defined as “the unconstitutional overthrow of a legitimate government by a smallgroup.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras 2009

A coup is defined as an “unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government by a smallgroup.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » “CRS Report” on Honduras “Coup”: 2009

»If it was legal, by definition, it cannot be a coup, since a coup is defined as “the unconstitutional overthrow of a legitimate government by a smallgroup.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”: 2009

It is about building larger, more representative "mass" formations on the one hand, and just mindless smallgroup protest engaged in by most anarchists.

Love and Rage Electronic Edition Part 4 1993

Since Honduras’s removal of its ex-president was legal, and supported by Honduras’s supreme court and Congress and much of Honduran society, it was by definition not a coup, since a coup is the “unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government by a smallgroup.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over? 2009