Thoreau's Criticism In Civil Disobedience

As a philosopher and writer throughout the mid-1800s, Henry David Thoreau, mentions and criticizes social establishments within the United States. He states strongly on how he perceives the government and the way it governs its people, to follow the rules and regulations enclosed all throughout the leadership in the United States of America. As stated in his written essay, Civil Disobedience, “That government is best which governs least”. Where he felt the people should not regard the laws but follow through with what they believe is right disregarding the law imposed to the majority. He explains why the government doesn’t prove itself useful to the majority, why the government of the people are a very unjust government and how the system within is counterproductive. Thoreau declined the payment of taxes known to the reason of the contribution, where he did not see eye-to-eye with which was slavery. He contravened …show more content…
A man should be able to contain independency and self-regulation in aspects that the government has full control of. Not eliminating it as a whole but deluding the power throughout it and ideas that they feel is right or “best” for the people, practicing reinforcement and restoration of kernel values such as liberty and simply the courtesy of an individual. Especially with the fact that only an individual can exercise conscience when they know and/or feel the policies are prejudice, giving disobedience and refuse involvement. Just as Henry David Thoreau exercised himself by declining any involvement in paying a poll tax, which was providing towards the production of the Mexican War or the function of it. Due to the extension of slavery into new territories through the United States, where the South took advantage of this opportunity to expand “slave