civil disobedience

civil disobedience. A deliberate but nonviolent act of lawbreaking to call attention to a particular law or set of laws believed by the actor to be of questionable legitimacy or morality. “Social protest and even civil disobedience serve the law’s need for growth. Ideally, reform would come according to reason and justice without self-help and […]

A deliberate but nonviolent act of lawbreaking to call attention to a particular law or set of laws believed by the actor to be of questionable legitimacy or morality.