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Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
"Resistance to Civil Government" (often titled "Civil Disobedience") was neither the first nor the last of Thoreau's writings on social and political reform.
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SYNOPSIS. Upon being jailed for refusing to pay his poll tax —a stance taken to register his protest of the government’s support of slavery and the Mexican War — Henry David Thoreau urges Americans to peacefully protest misguided and immoral government policies through various forms of civil disobedience. Events in History at the Time of the Essay.
Majority rule is based on physical strength, not right and justice. Individual conscience should rule instead, and civil government should confine itself to those matters suited to decision by majority rule. He deplores the lack of judgment, moral sense, and conscience in the way men serve the state. A man cannot bow unquestioningly to the ...
Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.
Jan 18, 2018 · On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. by Henry David Thoreau. 1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government. I heartily accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
…Disobedience” (1849; originally titled “Resistance to Civil Government”), Thoreau expounded his anarchistic views of government, insisting that if an injustice of government is “of such a nature that it requires injustice to another [you should] break the law [and] let your life be a counter friction to stop the… discussed in biography.
