CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

Answer 1

In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau declared that American government is "a sort of wooden gun to people themselves; and, if ever they should use it in earnest as the real one against each other, it will surely split." (Thoreau, 1849: 152) causes him to conclude that best government is government that governs least because government rarely proves useful or expedient. While Thoreau realized that American government is necessary, only time in which it has been useful is when government has stood aside, knowing that government is often abused so that it no longer represents will have people. ...