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    Civil Disobedience‚ the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines‚ as a peaceful form of political protest. It has been used all over the world for many years so that people or groups can cross points so that they can make a change. However some people believe that it is ineffective because people can get hurt or killed‚ or that it is ineffective. However I hold a different opinion‚ and I believe that civil disobedience is an effective to protest and make a change. For example

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    Civil disobedience is a not a viable way of protesting or showing a disagreement towards the government. Examples of why civil disobedience is a bad strategy to get a point across are how it didn’t help in democracy‚ it doesn’t usually change what the people are against‚ and it is not any more effective than other tactics. Civil disobedience did not help in democracy during 1848 until 1920‚ women had to fight to gain freedom. When quiet protests weren’t enough‚ they had to find an alternative. Brave

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    said‚ “Civil Disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless and corrupt.” Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy‚ characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting‚ picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes. Many people argue that civil disobedience is an effective way‚ but the strongest evidence around proves that opinion wrong. Civil disobedience is an ineffective

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    And an example of following this statement is the using the act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines‚ as a peaceful form of political protest. However‚ some argue that civil disobedience this is an ineffective way to change laws and/or make social change‚ but when you look at the facts‚ civil disobedience is clearly effective. Civil disobedience is effective for many reasons‚ few are such as there is no violence on one side

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    said‚ ”Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of people‚ especially when they have no effective voice in their own government‚ but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.” Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy‚ characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting‚ picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes. I believe that civil disobedience is an effective

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    Civil disobedience has been occurring all throughout the history of this country. Peaceful resistance to laws is a positive way to impact a free society. It is called a peaceful resistance when it is non-violent and there is no blood shed. People such as Rosa Parks peacefully resisted against unfair laws. As it says in the article‚"Parks was arrested for her act of civil disobedience and convicted of violating the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South until 1965. Her arrest

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    “If the law requires you to be the agent of injustice‚ then‚ I say‚ break the law” (Henry Thoreau) This famous quote is taken from the famous essay Civil Disobedience written in 1848‚ Civil Disobedience still stands as an expression of moral and individual conscience against a un just government. To begin‚ the quote written by Henry Thoreau‚ “If the law requires you to be the agent of injustice‚ then‚ I say‚ break the law” is essentially saying If following the law results in a wrong done to another

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    Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition‚ but one simple definition to sum it up is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. The law affects politics‚ economics and society in various ways and serves as a social arbitrator or intermediates of relations between people. Ethics according to Miriam Webster’s dictionary on the other hand can be defined as a system of moral principles. Our key word being

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    Is civil disobedience the most effective method to achieve change? Civil disobedience is to refuse to comply with laws as a peaceful form of political protest. Some examples of this are the Civil Rights Acts and the Anti-war movements. Civil disobedience is important because‚ it helps change unfair laws and policies and because violence brings more violence. An important fact is that civil disobedience can change unfair laws. Some examples of civil disobedience fixing unfair problems are the civil

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    Why Do We Need the Law? Almost everything we do is governed by some set of rules. There are rules for games‚ for social clubs‚ for sports and for adults in the workplace. There are also rules imposed by morality and custom that play an important role in telling us what we should and should not do. However‚ some rules -- those made by the state or the courts -- are called "laws". Laws resemble morality because they are designed to control or alter our behaviour. But unlike rules of morality‚ laws

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