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Breaking The Law! Conditions For And Perception Of Civil Disobedience By Democratic Citizens, Adam Stanley
Breaking The Law! Conditions For And Perception Of Civil Disobedience By Democratic Citizens, Adam Stanley
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This paper examines actions of civil disobedience and the laws relevant to those actions. Each case study was tested against an operational definition of civil disobedience to see if these actions could be considered a legitimate expression of civil disobedience. The legitimacy of the laws was assessed through the use of two competing legal philosophies of H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin. Then, the public’s opinion of civil disobedience was measured through the use of polls and survey data. The results showed that the three cases did follow the guidelines of civil disobedience established by the literature, but the …