LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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an angry attack of the government
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a abolitionist speech to end slavery
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a citizen’s call to action
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an anarchist’s desire for tradition
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Thoreau called for the use of what we now call “passive resistance” to laws perceived to be unjust, and predicted that individual resistance to unjust laws could have a significant effect on government and its policies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Civil disobedience is both a political tactic and the basis of movements that advocate social change. It is a nonviolent action engaged in by an individual who refuses to obey a law for moral or philosophical reasons.
Detailed explanation-4: -Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
Detailed explanation-5: -civil disobedience, also called passive resistance, the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual purpose is to force concessions from the government or occupying power.