By supporting his argument with an account of personal experience so we will trust him
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The Mexican-American War :)
To compare injustice to something concrete -apex
That it has not done enough to truly represent the people
An individual's relationship to government
Pointing out that he never refuses to pay highway taxes.
Henry David Thoreau
The role the government should play in people's lives
To explain why citizens have a moral obligation to disobey laws they find unjust
Henry David Thoreau's primary purpose in writing "Civil Disobedience" was to argue for individual resistance to unjust government actions, particularly in the form of passive resistance to unjust laws. Thoreau believed that individuals have a moral obligation to refuse to participate in injustice and to act according to their own conscience.
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