1) why would you submit to the law if you think that the law is so unjust? Should this be a requirement for civil disobedience? 2) what do you think Celikates meant by ‘collective’ character in his definition of civil disobedience? 3) what do you think of Celikates’ explanation that you cannot exclude violence in the definition of civil disobedience? 4) what do you think about civil disobedience as a collective form of contestation in which the constituted powers are confronted with the constituent power?

why would you submit to the law if you think that the law is so unjust? Should this be a requirement for civil disobedience?

Robin Celikates work on Civil Disobedience.

n class, we discussed four different perspectives on civil disobedience and/or our obligation to obey the law (Cohen, Rawls, Celikates, Wolff). Are any of those views consistent with your own? Why/Why not? Your answer should include an explanation of the main arguments/ideas presented by the author (or authors) whose views you decide to discuss.

principled disobedience in general as presumptively wrong because it violates political obligation, undermines the rule of law, and destabilizes society both through example, by signaling to others that anyone can disobey if they feel the urge, and in principle, by expressing disrespect for law’s authority.

pted excerpt from On the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauThoreau wrote this influential essay in 1849 because he was disgusted with the US government’s refusal to end slavery and with its participation in the Mexican-American War.The practical reason why a majority are permitted to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, but because they are physically the strongest. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not decide right and wrong, but conscience?— in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable1? Why has every man a conscience, then? It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation I have is to do at any time what I think right.________________________________________1. that is, only those issues that don’t have moral implications4Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu.Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentence.Thoreau reasons in this paragraph that a man isn’t meant to blindly follow the majority’s rules because .