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Civil Disobedience - School Essays

Civil Disobedience

Katherine Giordano
Mr. Martin
Honors American Literature
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Civil Disobedience is the American Idea

There is a certain angle Henry David Thoreau's essay "Resistance to Civil Government" must be viewed from. In addition to this being a well-known piece of American literature by a rather prominent American writer, there is clearly something else distinctly American about this piece: the idea. America is the perfect example of the product of civil disobedience! When this country split from Britain, it was written in the Declaration of Independence that "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or ...

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