Sentences with phrase «law of civil disobedience»

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), an organization that assists lawyers around the world who themselves defend human rights, has published a «Protesters» Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in British Columbia — Olympic Edition» [PDF].

Canadians even have a «how - to» book for such practices with the Protestors» Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in British Columbia.

One great place to start is the Protestor's Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in BC.

Not exact matches

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

Civil disobedience self - justified by conviction of «higher law.»

The Navy and Air Force had no objection to the letter, but the Army chief of chaplains, himself a Catholic, was worried that the line about not complying with the law was close to a call for civil disobedience.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those laws.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

«And for the miscreants and hoodlums, the Lagos State Government and the Police Command would not allow any act of civil disobedience and those arrested would be dealt with in accordance with the law and further arrests would be made as investigation continues,» he sai

And some second amendment advocates are also considering civil disobedience of the law.

As a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are explored.

A PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience, packaged with the video, «A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict,» says that Gandhi's method of nonviolence had three parts: «identify an unjust law, refuse to obey it, and accept the consequences.»

They provide one of the more succinct definitions of civil disobedience offered to high schoolers: «The right of all Americans to express their dissent against laws in these and many other ways is protected by the Constitution.

If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and peaceful) protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.

From 130 BC to the present, voices that encode the crucial role of civil disobedience in changing bad law and furthering social progress.

That doesn't work nearly as well and I would argue that it's not really quite the same as civil disobedience, which I would want to confine to disobedience of the unjust law itself.

In response to the question raised by post # 3 re: laws that prevent scientists from assisting wildlife, the concept of civil disobedience comes to mind.

You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices.

The undeniable truth is that the moral / ethical obligation is for all of the most fortunate to lead the rapid increase of awareness and understanding of the corrections required for the future of humanity and lead by example (discrediting and correcting «legal developments» when developed Laws and their enforcement are unethical / harmful, including exposing the awareness of unethical legal developments by disobeying through «civil disobedience»).

We compare the efforts in Alabama to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on Gay - Marriage with Colorado's legalization of Marijuana, we discuss the need for civil disobedience and the rule of Law vs the Rule of Man.

... The authority of the government exists to the degree that the rule of law reflects the higher moral code of the citizens, and throughout American history, it has been civil disobedience that has bound them together.

He wrote that «The rule of law is the bedrock of our civilized society, not acts of «civil disobedience» committed in the name of the cause of the day.»

By its very nature, civil disobedience is an act whose message is that the government and its laws are not the sole voice of moral authority.

Civil disobedience is an active refusal to comply with the law as a peaceful form of protest.

The Chief Justice of the Manitoba Court of Appeal indicated that civil disobedience is (1) always peaceful; (2) engaged in by persons who must be prepared to accept the penalty arising from the breach of the law; and (3) performed for the purpose of exposing the law to be immoral or unconstitutional, in the hope that it will be repealed or changed (McGrady at 10, quoting Chief Justice Samuel Freedman's speech «Challenges to the rule of law», 14 January 1971, Empire Club, Toronto, Ontario).

It will also explain how Canada's laws on dissent and disobedience interact with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the private rights protected in civil actions.