"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau posits that individuals have a duty to refuse participation in a government that upholds injustice, citing the Mexican War and slavery as examples of governmental overreach. He himself experienced imprisonment for refusing to pay his poll tax.
“On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (1849) es un ensayo de Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau argumenta que los individuos tienen el deber de desobedecer leyes injustas, citando la guerra mexicana y la esclavitud como ejemplos de acciones gubernamentales inmorales. Él mismo pasó una noche en prisión por negarse a pagar su impuesto personal.
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| Back | an essay by Thoreau 1849 citing the controversial Mexican war, slavery and the treatment ofح Indians , and referring to the night he himself spent in goal for refusing to pay his poll tax Thoreau argues that an individual may refuse to participate in a government that does not uphold his or her moral standards Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, 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 (1846–1848). |
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