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On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

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Number of Pages: 30 Pages Format: Trade Paperback Publisher: CreateSpace Publication Year: 2016 Item Length: 9 in Book Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Item Height: 0.1 in ISBN: 9781535155632 Genre: Political Science width: 6 in Topic: Commentary & Opinion Item Width: 6 in Book Series: Henry David Thoreau Ser. Language: English Author: Henry D. Thoreau height: 0.1 in Item Weight: 3.4 Oz

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On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience. Number of Pages: 30. Weight: 0.12 lbs. Publication Date: 2016-07-08. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience ISBN13: 9781535155632 ISBN10: 1535155639 Author: Thoreau, Henry David (Author) Description: (This is a RePrint) - On The Duty Of Civil Disobediencebyhenry David Thoreaucomplete Classicsresistance To Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) 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) In 1848, Thoreau Gave Lectures At The Concord Lyceum Entitled The Rights And Duties Of The Individual In Relation To Government This Formed The Basis For His Essay, Which Was First Published Under The Title Resistance To Civil Government In 1849 In An Anthology Called Aesthetic Papers The Latter Title Distinguished Thoreau's Program From That Of The Non-Resistants (Anarcho-Pacifists) Who Were Expressing Similar Views Resistance Also Served As Part Of Thoreau's Metaphor Comparing The Government To A Machine: When The Machine Was Producing Injustice, It Was The Duty Of Conscientious Citizens To Be A Counter Friction (I E , A Resistance) To Stop The Machine In 1866, Four Years After Thoreau's Death, The Essay Was Reprinted In A Collection Of Thoreau's Work (A Yankee In Canada, With Anti-Slavery And Reform Papers) Under The Title Civil Disobedience Today, The Essay Also Appears Under The Title On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Perhaps To Contrast It With William Paley's Of The Duty Of Civil Obedience To Which Thoreau Was In Part Responding For Instance, The 1960 New American Library Signet Classics Edition Of Walden Included A Version With This Title On Civil Disobedience Is Another Common Title Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Publication Date: 2016-07-08 Weight: 0.12 lbs Dimensions: 0.06'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' W Number of Pages: 30 Language: English

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