civil disobedience
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civ·il dis·o·be·di·ence
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the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
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Teaching about civil disobedience: clarifying a recurring theme in the secondary social studies.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Social Studies; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...students' understanding of civil disobedience as a democratic and nonviolent...authors explore the concept of civil disobedience from a historical perspective...often mistakenly categorized as civil disobedience. Through these examples...
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Problems of punitive damages for political protest and civil disobedience. (Oregon)(Case Note)
Magazine article from: Environmental Law; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Problems with Punitive Damages for Civil Disobedience VI. A Solution to Punitive Damages and Civil Disobedience I. Introduction The Oregon...assessing punitive damages for civil disobedience violates both the United States...
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Civil disobedience and democracy
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Headline: Civil disobedience and democracy Byline: EVELYN...understanding of the role of civil disobedience in a democracy. By law, a...Artzenu, a movement that ran a civil disobedience campaign against the Oslo Accords...
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Civil disobedience not succeeding, Experts cite public support for Bush, at least at present
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 3/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...who challenge war policy by civil disobedience are resurrecting the powerful...Iraq has brought a tide of civil disobedience, an exalted tool to many promoters...theoretician, Henry Thoreau, civil disobedience is a lawbreaking act of personal...
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The Price of Privilege.("Civil Disobedience" at 150 )
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; "Civil Disobedience" at 150 One hundred and fifty years...have come to know it as "Civil Disobedience." For many Americans today, the phrase and the essay "Civil Disobedience" evoke another, somewhat less...
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Civil disobedience (Canada).(paper by professor John Redekop of Trinity Western University)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 9/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...has been raised as to whether civil disobedience is a proper moral Christian response. "Civil disobedience" is defined in the paper as...to the law." Examples of civil disobedience could include helping illegal...
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Civil disobedience.
Magazine article from: LawNow; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Civil Disobedience can be a powerful tool in the hands...must be careful not to mistake for civil disobedience what is actually all too often these...that get out of hand. Furthermore, civil disobedience -- which is more of a political...
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Experts: Civil Disobedience Can Backfire
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...who challenge war policy by civil disobedience are resurrecting the powerful...Iraq has brought a tide of civil disobedience, an exalted tool to many promoters...theoretician, Henry Thoreau, civil disobedience is a lawbreaking act of personal...
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Civil disobedience is not destruction
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 1/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...direct action, but by that said it meant civil disobedience -- sit-ins, blockades, occupation...the party still define such action as civil disobedience? Obvious examples of civil disobedience in New Zealand are the anti- Vietnam...
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PETROL PROTEST -- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OR SELF-INTEREST?
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...democracy in action; an act of civil disobedience designed to force an out of...of the debate. The term 'civil disobedience' appears to have been coined...would appear that essentially civil disobedience consists of unlawful conduct...
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civil disobedience
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
civil disobedience refusal to obey a law or follow a...in the law. In the modern era, civil disobedience has been used in such events as street...resistance. The philosophy behind civil disobedience goes back to classical and biblical...
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Civil Disobedience
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE denotes the public, and usually nonviolent, defiance of a law that an individual or group believes unjust, and the willingness to bear the consequences of breaking that law. In 1846, to demonstrate opposition...
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Civil Disobedience (1846, by Henry David Thoreau)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (1846, by Henry David Thoreau...experience came his famous essay, "Civil Disobedience." Of the essay, the historian...Jakoubek , Independent Scholar See also Civil Disobedience . I HEARTILY accept the motto...
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‘Civil Disobedience’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Civil Disobedience’, see Thoreau, H. D.
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Civil Defense
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...x2010;bomb convinced many Americans that civil defense was useless. The FCDA shifted from a...people participated in well‐organized civil disobedience efforts to discredit civil defense as a solution to the threat of nuclear...
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