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Civil Disobedience

By Elizabeth Schmermund

Book information

Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Year
2017
ISBN
9781534500662
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
656 kB (671658 bytes)
Series
At Issue
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-28 09:15:03
CrimeLawYAN031000Young Adult Nonfiction

Description

Civil disobedience, the refusal to obey certain laws, is a method of protest famously articulated by philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau in his 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau believed that protest became a moral obligation when laws collided with conscience. Since then, civil disobedience has been employed as a form of rebellion around the world. But is there a place for civil disobedience in democratic societies? When is civil disobedience justifiable? Is violence ever called for? Furthermore, how effective is civil disobedience?

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