LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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can be abused
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is a tool for the army
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should be destroyed
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is a tool to be used for the people
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Detailed explanation-1: -Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau forcefully defended active resistance and even violence, both by and on behalf of oppressed people.
Detailed explanation-3: -He believed that the government system steals the right to an individual life and personal experience. Because of this opinion, Thoreau came to the conclusion that the government is/can be abused before the people can willfully act through it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why does Thoreau lack confidence in government? (Thoreau believes that government is unlikely to act on the will of the people; that government is, “equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.")
Detailed explanation-5: -How does Thoreau define the best possible kind of government? Thoreau envisions the best kind of government as on that does not govern. He supports laissez-faire (free enterprise, free trade, noninterfering).