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permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...
Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....
emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...
that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...
perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...
In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...
In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...
In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...
In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...
In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...
In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
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human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...
garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...
a advertisement using a social networking site, so that the advertisement appears on the internet. However, we do not need to look...
In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...
In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...