How Did Jim Crow Laws Impact A Free Society

Laws are placed to keep us, the people, safe. We even put people out there to regulate those laws, and to offer punishment to those who don't follow them. When people resist laws it puts the lawmakers in a bad place. People who are boycotting the laws because they don't want to support what goes against their values. You can't please everyone and keep everyone safe. Opposition to anything is almost always met with a wall of stubbornness from the other side. Take, for example, abortion. There are those who supported the Trump administration closing abortion clinics, the pro-life. Then there's the other side: The pro-choice. Half of them are protesting that women have the right to their own body; while the other side claims that a person starts as a fetus. …show more content…
But oft time what starts out peacefully ends with people screaming and coming to blows.
Most protesting impacts our free society negatively. People blindside themselves causing a hate to stem from what they believe. There are a few cases of peaceful protest helping our society. One of them is with Martin Luther King Jr. He fought to make sure that all of his protests (with the exception of one) were peaceful. HIs speeches helped eradicate the Jim Crow Laws which were laws that enforced segregation.
Peaceful protesting of laws positively impacts a free society. BUt only at certain times. In the case of racism and segregation, peace was the way to go. But in the case of the American Revolution, where states thought they were allowed to govern themselves, peaceful protests only put the colonists in the