Can civil disobedience impact policy at any level of government is the question we find ourselves trying to ponder in this final paper. There is no more authentically western question about governmental policy that one can ask. Of course civil disobedience is not unique to western European culture but a quick comparative study of our history versus other culture groups will show you that in no other culture will you find civil disobedience so ingrained into the bedrock of its culture.
Our bedrock of course being Greco-Romans is a great place to start looking. Especially Rome even hundreds of years’ after the Roman republic die at the hands of Julius Cesar Romans cling to their republican values so much so emperors feared losing legitimacy …show more content…
Just take a look out of your window the country we live is of course the result of one the greatest strings of successful acts of civil disobedience. The stamp act riots, the Boston tea party, even are the American Revaluation start out as an act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience and the right to protest what you feel is wrong or unjust it built right into the foundation of our republic as you can read for yourself “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The freedom to assemble to in order to air any grievance someone might have was so important our deeply religious founding generation felt it should be included in the same amendment as free on religion. This would seem to me to be due to the fact that we are a nation because of an act of civil …show more content…
As lead my Martin Luther King Jr. who for fifteen years lead sit ins, boycotts, marches, and peaceful protest. While it was a long and arduous journey for this movement to really effect any change on governmental policy. It did have an effect one whose legacy can still be felt today. This is how are founders and many other great American thinkers believe that the very American act of committing some act of civil disobedience was meant to work by grabbing other attentions of others so that it might start the
Our bedrock of course being Greco-Romans is a great place to start looking. Especially Rome even hundreds of years’ after the Roman republic die at the hands of Julius Cesar Romans cling to their republican values so much so emperors feared losing legitimacy …show more content…
Just take a look out of your window the country we live is of course the result of one the greatest strings of successful acts of civil disobedience. The stamp act riots, the Boston tea party, even are the American Revaluation start out as an act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience and the right to protest what you feel is wrong or unjust it built right into the foundation of our republic as you can read for yourself “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The freedom to assemble to in order to air any grievance someone might have was so important our deeply religious founding generation felt it should be included in the same amendment as free on religion. This would seem to me to be due to the fact that we are a nation because of an act of civil …show more content…
As lead my Martin Luther King Jr. who for fifteen years lead sit ins, boycotts, marches, and peaceful protest. While it was a long and arduous journey for this movement to really effect any change on governmental policy. It did have an effect one whose legacy can still be felt today. This is how are founders and many other great American thinkers believe that the very American act of committing some act of civil disobedience was meant to work by grabbing other attentions of others so that it might start the