What is Civil Disobedience?
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government.
There are three type of civil disobedience:
Can you give examples of civil disobedience?
There are three type of civil disobedience:
- "Integrity-based" civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys a law she or he feels is immoral, as in the case of northerners disobeying the fugitive slave
laws by refusing to turn over escaped slaves to
authorities. - "Justice-based" civil disobedience occurs when a citizen disobeys laws in order to lay claim to some right denied to her or him, as when Blacks illegally protested during the Civil Rights Movement.
- "Policy-based" civil disobedience occurs when a person breaks the law in order to change a policy (s)he believes is dangerously wrong.
Can you give examples of civil disobedience?
civil Rights protests
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Student Protests in China
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Occupy Wall Street
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Protests to Legalizing Marijuana
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Black Lives Matters
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National Anthem Protests
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