Civil Disobedience

Type

Book

Authors

Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 10

1505383935

ISBN 13

9781505383935

Tags

Social Sciences, Politics & Government, Education Theory, Education, Political Science

Description

"Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience") is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War. - from Amzon

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