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The Power of Civil Disobedience: When Conscience Trumps Law

Explore the history and impact of civil disobedience, from the Boston Tea Party to modern-day activists. Learn how individuals have challenged unjust laws and influenced societal change without resorting to violence.

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The Power of Civil Disobedience: When Conscience Trumps Law

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  1. Civil Disobedience When is your conscience more powerful than the law?

  2. What is Civil Disobedience?

  3. Without Violence • Refusal to go by a law that is immoral or unjust in itself, or furthers injustice. • Appeals to the mass sense of justice, in order to get them to think about it again and change public policy.

  4. Our Country Was Founded on it • In 1772, groups of colonists began to create committees of correspondence, which would lead to their own Provincial Congresses in most of the colonies. • In two years, the Provincial Congresses or their equals rejected the Parliament and effectively replaced it with a British ruling apparatus in the former colonies, coming together in 1774 with the coordinating first continental congress. • Britain imposed a series of direct taxes followed by other laws intended to demonstrate British authority, all of which proved extremely unpopular in America. • Because the colonies lacked elected representation in the governing of the British Parliament, many Americans considered the laws to be illegitimate and a violation of their rights as Englishmen.

  5. The Boston Tea Party • The Boston Tea Party was one of the key events in the American Revolution. It was a the result of the Tea Act enforced by British Parliament to restore the East India Company full refund on the 25% duty imposed for importing tea into Britain. • It also permitted the company to export tea to the American colonies on its own account and led to a number of protests from the colonies. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists boarded the three shiploads of taxed tea in Boston and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor

  6. Civil Disobedience to End Slavery • Henry David Thoreau’s reputation began when he was jailed for not paying a poll tax in 1840. • The tax supported the war with Mexico and slavery, which he strongly disagreed with. Thoreau did pay his other taxes. • The term “civil disobedience” in the title of his essay argues in favor of non-violent opposition to slavery and for waging war on Mexico.

  7. It can Be A small Act • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdXhWS7lLvs

  8. These People did Much Greater Things Oskar Schindler Miep Gies

  9. Live for Peace Mahatma Ghandi Leo Tolstoy

  10. Live for Peace Archbishop Desmond Tutu Nelson Mandela

  11. Live for Peace Cindy Sheehan Julia Butterfly Hill

  12. Live for Peace Rosa Parks Phillip Berrigan

  13. Live for Peace 14thDalai Lama Cesar Chavez

  14. The Assignment • Research a figure who participated in civil disobedience. • Take notes on their life, education, act, and influence. • Create a Prezi that represents this person through visual effects, sound, and quotes. http://prezi.com/kpfeybbfyk44/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy • Create an MLA work cited. • Get inspired!!!!

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