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How did your prior knowledge help you better understand "Civil Disobedience"? Give specific examples, and include a quotation from the passage that your pre-reading thought process helped you understand.

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Thoreau writes about the justification on revolution. He gives a reference to the early works on this issue which the proves the inefficiency of such acts. Thoreau's argument lies on the the government's acts, not on the majority's. When government is acting unjustly, it has to be fixed, it has to be resisted. This point puts an interesting question even in today's political agenda. How the revolution has to be and why the revolution has to be is simply explained in Thoreau's essay. Thoreau backs up his argument with Mexican-American war. He says, "This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people." and condemns government's acts.

Thoreau was the proponent of Civil Disobedience and this helped him to:

  • Form his theory about rebellion and civil disobedience to an unjust government.

Civil Disobedience

This refers to the theory which was made by Thoreau where he stated that an unjust government did not deserve the cooperation of the people.

With this, we can see that prior knowledge of this concept helped me to understand that I did not owe allegiance to an unjust government. One example of civil disobedience was shown in his argument about the Mexican-American War and how the people needed to rebel.

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