All disobedience of law is not civil disobedience Anyone commits an act of civil disobedience if and only if he acts illegally, publicly, nonviolently, and conscientiously with the intent to frustrate the laws, policies or decision of his government. Civil disobedience is flanked by two further form forms of political action. The more extreme forms of action is revolution which involves an attempt to overturn the state as a whole with the aim of replacing existing form of authority with a differing, often organizing according to an alternative set of political ideals. Revolution usually involves political violence- acts violence committed with a specifically political aim. The less radical alternative is political
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Civil disobedience lies between these two forms of action in the sense that it is generally more limited in its aims and methods than revolution, but contrast with protest on the grounds that it fails outside the law. In 1960s the right of black in the southern states the US constitution guaranteed equality for all but individual states segregated black and white children within the schooling system and introduced criteria for voting which made it all but impossible for black people to register. In such circumstances argued we have an obligation to obey the state but it is morally permissible to break the law in order to specific injustices. Every act is not civil disobedience. For identifying an act as one of civil disobedience there must be clear injustice. The law must be broken. The law which is to be overturned need not be the one which is broken. The act must be a public act not for individual’s interest. It must be non violent and non threaten. The actions are intended to be articulate and reasonable, as against a means of coercing or freighting others into conforming to ones wishes. The perpetrator accepts the penalties for her illegal actions. Although civil disobedience involves breaking the law it is done for moral rather than selfish …show more content…
To threaten the stability of the state as a whole is go beyond opposing the individual’s laws, and to challenge the just principles which underpin the state. This is unacceptable. The actions are carried out within fidelity to the law. The civil disobedience does not object rule of law as such and may well accept as just the great majority of laws to which she is subject. Crucially the aim is to change a specific law or set of laws precisely because it is at odds with those just laws and repeal of unfair law. Civil disobedience does not a legal right. It is a moral right. Civil disobedience can be restored to as a form of social protest. It is a context of the relationship between law and morality. From the time of Socratic dialogues which called for men to examine the premises of their personal morality and civic obligation and from the early theater this presented the dilemma of Antigon. One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles' play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law. She is not at all afraid of the death he threatens her with (and eventually carries out), but she
Civil disobedience lies between these two forms of action in the sense that it is generally more limited in its aims and methods than revolution, but contrast with protest on the grounds that it fails outside the law. In 1960s the right of black in the southern states the US constitution guaranteed equality for all but individual states segregated black and white children within the schooling system and introduced criteria for voting which made it all but impossible for black people to register. In such circumstances argued we have an obligation to obey the state but it is morally permissible to break the law in order to specific injustices. Every act is not civil disobedience. For identifying an act as one of civil disobedience there must be clear injustice. The law must be broken. The law which is to be overturned need not be the one which is broken. The act must be a public act not for individual’s interest. It must be non violent and non threaten. The actions are intended to be articulate and reasonable, as against a means of coercing or freighting others into conforming to ones wishes. The perpetrator accepts the penalties for her illegal actions. Although civil disobedience involves breaking the law it is done for moral rather than selfish …show more content…
To threaten the stability of the state as a whole is go beyond opposing the individual’s laws, and to challenge the just principles which underpin the state. This is unacceptable. The actions are carried out within fidelity to the law. The civil disobedience does not object rule of law as such and may well accept as just the great majority of laws to which she is subject. Crucially the aim is to change a specific law or set of laws precisely because it is at odds with those just laws and repeal of unfair law. Civil disobedience does not a legal right. It is a moral right. Civil disobedience can be restored to as a form of social protest. It is a context of the relationship between law and morality. From the time of Socratic dialogues which called for men to examine the premises of their personal morality and civic obligation and from the early theater this presented the dilemma of Antigon. One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles' play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial. She gives a stirring speech in which she tells him that she must obey her conscience rather than human law. She is not at all afraid of the death he threatens her with (and eventually carries out), but she