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Henry David Thoreau was one of the first to write a practical manual for civil disobedience, citing his own actions as an example. The essay,  \na personal response to the author's imprisonment for not paying a poll tax, urges concerned citizens to follow their consciences rather than the laws. In Thoreau's case, his conscience led him to oppose American slavery and the Mexican–American War. He specifically discusses the pitfalls of American democracy and offers guidelines for effective resistance to injustice, adaptable to any place and time. Many social reformers, including Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., have cited \"Civil Disobedience\" as inspiration.  \nABOUT THE TITLE  \nHenry David Thoreau's original title for this essay was\"Resistance to Civil Government.\" The essay was first delivered as a lecture before it was published. After his death, the essay was reprinted as \"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience\" and later shortened to \"Civil Disobedience,\" a phrase, never used in the essay itself, which means \"the act of declining to follow certain laws or government demands as an act of protest.\" In \"Civil Disobedience,\" Thoreau responds to a text by English clergyman William Paley, called \"The Duty of Submission to Civil Government,\" which appears in The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). Thoreau's second title may have been chosen to mirror the title of a different chapter in Paley's book: \"On the Duty of Civil Obedience.\"  \na Main Ideas  \nCitizen's Duty  \nThoreau argues that each individual is responsible for creating the society they want to live in. \"Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect,\" he advises in Section 1. Rather than wait for reformers or elected representatives to make changes, citizens should make changes themselves. All people who want an end to slavery, for  \ninstance, should \"at once ... withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government.\" This disobedience is not only their right but their responsibility.  \nThe essay explains how Thoreau believes a model citizen must act. Despite his desire to be a \"bad subject,\" Thoreau believeshe is doing what is best for the country. Most significantly, hereverses traditional notions of citizenship and patriotism.  \nThose who disobey unjust laws, he thinks, are the real\"patriots\" who \"serve the State with their consciences.\" By contrast, soldiers and legislators serve the State only with their bodies.  \nLaw Versus Conscience  \nWhen law and cons","cbCaiuLY3M9ZsLAj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuLY3M9ZsLAj","pdf",209579,"English","# Book Basics\n## Main Ideas\n## In Context\n## Author Biography\n## Plot Summary\n## Section Summaries\n## Quotes\n## Glossary\n## Suggested Reading","[{\"question\":\"What event prompted Thoreau to write Civil Disobedience?\",\"answer\":\"Thoreau’s imprisonment for not paying a poll tax prompted his personal response and the essay’s central argument about conscience versus law.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Thoreau say is a citizen’s duty?\",\"answer\":\"He argues that each individual is responsible for creating the society they want, including withdrawing support from a government that sustains injustice.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Thoreau view conflicts between law and conscience?\",\"answer\":\"He holds that no one should question which to choose when law and conscience clash; a society guided by moral compasses will be better for everyone.\"}]","Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience | PDF",1789940995,29]