What claim does thoreau make about his obligation as a citizen? how does this claim relate to the premise, “that government is best which governs least”?

Thoreau believes that, as a citizen, it is his obligation to disobey a law that he believes is unfair and goes against his morals. He tells us that all people need to listen to their morals and their conscience before anything else, and that they need to act accordingly always, regardless of what the law states. Therefore, he thinks that the government should not interfere in these matters, nor should they try to force people to act against their principles. The government should instead "govern least" and not interfere in ethical matters.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."