Peaceful Resistance To Laws Influence Our Free Society

Peaceful resistance to laws most certainly influences our free society in a positive way. America itself was founded by people who wanted to change the laws set on them but had no power to do so, and they learned from their hardships, we know this because the Declaration of Independence states that it is a citizens duty to overthrow an unjust government. There is no doubt that the Founding Fathers knew that placing such a large amount of power in common folk would be dangerous, as most citizens of the colonies knew the damages that abusive powers such as that of King George III and how it would affect the people the most. This was not only present for the U.S.A. however, one of the most powerful examples we have today is Mohandas K. Gandhi's life to peacefully resisting the …show more content…
America has always been advertised as a land of the free therefore when people see actions and words that put their freedom at risk the y do what they think is right, and the Federalists of their time believed that there is no way to guarantee that any government would be perfect and that belief itself sparked the portion of the First Amendment that gave the citizens living under the government that was made by the constitution the right to assemble, as a way to have their voices heard. Where there is a free society there is bound to be problems as everyone was born, raised, and thinks very differently from one another, but protests especially those that are peaceful create echos from community to community each saying to each other that, "this isn't right, we need to do something about this". All of this ultimately gives me the perspective that peaceful protests empower communities and assists in the advancement of a free