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Civil disobedience, also called passive resistance, the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual purpose is to force concessions from the government or occupying power.
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Jan 4, 2007 · The term ‘civil disobedience’ was coined by Henry David Thoreau in his 1848 essay to describe his refusal to pay the state poll tax implemented by the American government to prosecute a war in Mexico and to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law.
Jan 4, 2007 · Thoreau’s lecture, titled “The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government,” formed the basis of his 1849 essay, “Resistance to Civil Government.”. In 1866, four years after Thoreau’s death, the essay was republished under the title “Civil Disobedience.”.
Civil Disobedience. “Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.
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Politics portal. v. t. e. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or ...
It was included in the 1866 volume A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. In this collection, the essay was titled “Civil Disobedience,” the name by which it is often known today. Followers of a recent trend, however, prefer to retain Thoreau’s title “Resistance to Civil Government.”.
Gandhi during the Salt March (1930) Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence.
