![subject](/tpl/images/cats/en.png)
English, 01.12.2020 18:20 brittanydeanlen
From Civil Disobedience
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period
continue to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems falrest to the minority, but because they are physically
the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not
be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?---in which majorities decide only those questions to
which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why
has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so
much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
(from "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau)
What is the effect of the oxymoron "Civil Disobedience"?
O 1. It describes a principle: civilians must use legal action to disobey the will of the majority.
02. It establishes a tone: If a government is uncivilized, it cannot expect citizens to obey the law.
O 3. it highlights a problem: to be civilized, citizens must conform rather than obey their consciences.
4. It illustrates a theme: standing by one's conscience is more civilized than simply obeying the majority
![ansver](/tpl/images/cats/User.png)
Answers: 2
![](/tpl/images/ask_question.png)
![](/tpl/images/ask_question_mob.png)
Other questions on the subject: English
![image](/tpl/images/cats/en.png)
English, 21.06.2019 18:00, PONBallfordM89
Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return
Answers: 3
![image](/tpl/images/cats/en.png)
English, 22.06.2019 02:00, taylorbohr6823
As usual the nurse has trouble getting to the point what does juliet think happened before she learns the truth?
Answers: 2
![image](/tpl/images/cats/en.png)
English, 22.06.2019 06:00, Abdirisack3250
Which if the following does the communist party do through it's party organization? select all that apply. ensures freedom of the people recruits members and leaders develops policy indoctrinates the people maintains discipline
Answers: 2
You know the right answer?
From Civil Disobedience
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of...
Questions in other subjects:
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)
Mathematics, 15.12.2020 16:40
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/himiya.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)
Mathematics, 15.12.2020 16:40
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/ekonomika.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/istoriya.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)
![Konu](/tpl/images/cats/mat.png)