American contention runs on claim-making governed by constitutional rights and state protection.

Evidence

On 16 January the national holiday in memory of Martin Luther King was marred by race rioting in Miami following the shooting of two blacks by a policeman. The riot was quelled after two days but at least one person died, 11 were wounded and almost 400 arrested. There was violence in Georgia too when black and white marchers were attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan for entering an all-white county. A larger demonstration followed on 24 January under the protection of the state militia … . On 23 August a white gang killed a black youth in an attack on four black youths in Bensonhurst, a largely Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Subsequent black protest demonstrations in the area met with abuse from white onlookers. Further demonstrations and confrontations took place when New York blacks marched in memory of Huey P. Newton, one of the founders in the 1960s of the Black Panthers, who was found shot dead in Oakland, California, in what appeared to be a drug-related killing on 22 August. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 379

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s asymmetry test: black protest in the democratic high-capacity US is explicitly claim-making within a constitutional rights regime (state militia protection of marchers), while China’s diffuse protest is not rights-claiming toward the state — showing the repertoire difference follows regime structure. — connects to: Political contention requires public, collective claims implicating a government.; US constitutional argument forms derive from common-law modes overlaid on the state. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 225; American states’-rights parties invoked individual freedom while defending intermediate circles. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 633 (+9 more)
• SHARE: The Annual Register’s frame — cataloging a year’s contention by regime type — is a research structure worth flagging to anyone doing comparative protest-event datasets like the Dynamics of Contention project.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 379

Broader Connections

• Political contention requires public, collective claims implicating a government. #expands (0.88)
• Gun advocates reframed policy defense as protecting law-abiding citizens’ constitutional rights. #exemplifies (0.87) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1262
• Democratic regimes channel contentious claims into prescribed institutional forms. #corroborates (0.87) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 447
• Regimes shape claim-making repertoires through control, constitution of claimants, and issue streams #corroborates (0.86) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1168
• Contention is political only when claims are public and governmental #corroborates (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 131
• Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries #corroborates (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311
• Existing political institutions, not just pressure levels, shape contention. #corroborates (0.84) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 631
• States’ rights rhetoric signals resistance to federally-enforced racial equality. #exemplifies (0.84) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 286
• Contentious politics is collective claim-making for power and advantage #expands (0.83) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114
• American states’-rights parties invoked individual freedom while defending intermediate circles. #exemplifies (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 633
• US constitutional argument forms derive from common-law modes overlaid on the state. #expands (0.78) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 225
• Early American union struggles defended craft rights against industrial liberty. #exemplifies (0.75)