LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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People must overthrow the government.
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Trade and commerce should be strictly regulated.
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The fewer people who run the government, the better.
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Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau’s basic premise is that a higher law than civil law demands the obedience of the individual. Human law and government are subordinate. In cases where the two are at odds with one another, the individual must follow his conscience and, if necessary, disregard human law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau argued that the government must end its unjust actions to earn the right to collect taxes from its citizens. As long as the government commits unjust actions, he continued, conscientious individuals must choose whether to pay their taxes or to refuse to pay them and defy the government.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. Features of Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau is widely credited with coining the term civil disobedience. For years, Thoreau refused to pay his state poll tax as a protest against the institution of slavery, the extermination of Native Americans, and the war against Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -He encourages a distinction between lawful protest demonstration, nonviolent civil disobedience, and violent civil disobedience.