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noun
- 1. the refusal to comply with certain laws considered unjust, as a peaceful form of political protest.
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Active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power
Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as... Wikipedia
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