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Impunity (or not) for civil disobedience [PDF]
Starting from Rawls's concept of civil disobedience, the author argues that it is carried out on justified moral grounds and must be distinguished from all other tortious actions.
Vojnović Sava
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Lefkowitz, Disobedience and Political Authority
This paper examines political philosopher David Lefkowitiz’s (2007) framework of public disobedience and argues that the acts of civil disobedience employed in the nonviolent Moral Monday protests held at the State Legislative building in the city of ...
Shannon Davis
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A public, non-violent act not abiding by a recognized rule, and conscientiously done with the intent to frustrate the latter, is called an act of civil disobedience.
Marisi Flavia
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Deliberation in an Age of (Un)Civil Resistance
There is currently a global wave of protest movements whose militant tactics cannot be subsumed under the category of nonviolent civil disobedience. There has, concurrently, been a surge of interest among political philosophers in the idea of ‘uncivil ...
William Smith
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The criminal response to civil disobedience [PDF]
Authority and freedom are two subjects always in contrast to each other. Governments strive to enhance their authorities to control people by emphasis on following the rules, yet people try to improve their freedom with different methods.
Alireza Taghipoor, Fatemeh Mottaghi
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Civil Disobedience and Academic Freedom
What is the relation between the forms of principled law-breaking that we know as civil disobedience and the special rights of teachers and students that comprise academic freedom?
Leslie Green
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The Right to Civil Disobedience
This article compares and contrasts the way Gandhi understands the right to civil disobedience with the way this right is understood by some contemporary liberals. Some of the implications of the right to civil disobedience are also discussed.
Vinit Haksar
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Corporate Civil Disobedience [PDF]
Classic theories of civil disobedience endorse the right of individuals to commit illegal acts to protest unjust laws and policies. Acts of civil disobedience have historically played a central role in exposing injustice and producing vital legal and ...
Ripken, Susanna K.
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WOS: 000506468000001Purpose Civil disobedience is often defined as a public, conscientious, nonviolent act of breaking the law in an attempt to change an unjust policy or law.
Atilgan, Hatice
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Civil disobience [sic] is a species of law violation, and it is from this point that any effort to define the concept must proceed. But civil disobedience is law violation characterized by certain kinds of motives and directed to the attaining of certain
Allen, Francis A.
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