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Civil Disobedience
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Lewis Perry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-28 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever
Civil Disobedience
Language: en
Pages: 41
Authors: Henry David Thoreau
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: The Floating Press

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Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write
Conscience and Conviction
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Kimberley Brownlee
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-18 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection. Part I explores the morality of conviction and conscie
Civil Disobedience in Focus
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Hugo Adam Bedau
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: CUP Archive

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An assessment of both classical and current philosophical thought concerning the issue of civil disobedience. Drawing upon the essays of such contemporary think
Civil Disobedience
Language: en
Pages: 99
Authors: Tony Milligan
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence. Such principled law-breaking