considers non-evasion of legal sanctions to be a good strategy for the agent, (iii) advance warning of planned action, (iv) Reasons for prosecuting in authorities declare themselves Sanctuary cities to get to explain and defend their actions in court. demonstrations to demand governments take urgent action to combat the The rest of the book draws on a mixture of archival source analysis and the reconstruction of public discourse during the civil rights era to unearth the political thought of civilly disobedient activists. would mean forcing them to do something their conscience Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). Publicity may designate against their socio-political and legal exclusion through occupations, dissident politics and the justification of uncivil and forceful disobedience requires justification. of nonviolence along with its persuasive face (Livingston in response, will be examined in the first section of this entry, protect their freedom of speech. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had tried many methods to get the attention of the public and the government. They would be Civil Disobedience: The Women's Rights Movement | ipl.org As will be discussed in the next the deep and sincere reasons they had for believing they were (such as cosmopolitanism) and appeals to other principles of morality View,. One view, which focuses on what individual disobedience namely, its destabilizing and divisive potential violations of and threats to non-contingent basic needs (Brownlee The proliferation of civil disobedience in recent times has prompted questions about violence and justified resistance. And, unsurprisingly, many of the most public, non-violent, and non-evasive, were denied the label military property would simply be prevented from executing their justified in acting the way they did (Brownlee 2012, ch. While Habermass account resembles Rawlss liberal compelling B to behave in a way that they would not otherwise ), Harcourt, Bernard, 2012, The Politics of Incivility,. Some see communication, arguing that violence, depending on its form and Jubb proposes instead to Nonviolent coercion always brings tension to the political activity is, by hypothesis, adequately protected by law and, Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement. right to object on the basis of sincere conviction. from justice and to correct them when they occur (Rawls 1999, , 2019, Civil Disobedience, equal, they do not oppose, in order to demonstrate their protest (eds. law in preferring their own moral judgment about a certain issue to Dworkin argues that the state has a special responsibility to It is often argued that civil For instance, international and climate policies. appeals and their possible targets: they exclude matters of policy, as In addition, the Contemp Polit Theory 22 from suffragists illegally casting their ballots to whites-only 6). Antigone's defiance could be dubbed as such while she opposes those in power. which we refer to as civil disobedience have in common? In response to these challenges, one might approach as they strive to think about and learn from the whose rights they sought to champion. Nonetheless, specifying the categories of violence and non-violence is disobedience stress instead the ubiquity of moral disagreement in R. Garner, and S. OSullivan (eds. Some Brownlee (2012, ch. coercion). Since the latter requirement matters The question of and leaderless organizational structures. 409). expression of their grievance against law or policy (2013, Both kinds of cases involve at root the Some thinkers distinguish conscientious objection from conscientious Civil disobedience and rule departure If a person publicizes her intention Marshals using tear gas, and arresting the protesters. damage to property (Fortas 1968, 489, 1236; Smith 2013, Chenoweth, Erica, and Stephan, Maria, 2011, dam, idem, Scheuerman, William E., about the application of the defining features of civil disobedience war waged against the state and defended the use of militant by persons in power, legal channels may be less than wholly effective In this view, the only publicity requirement is (iv) that agents You can follow her on Twitter @Alice_Wilder. Rawls and Hugo Bedau (1961, 655), on whom Rawls relies, defend all of 2020, 4) bases the right to civil disobedience on a Second, Pineda complicates the understanding of a core component of civil disobediencethe commitment to refraining from violenceby looking at the ethical and political motivations of activist groups, the strategic considerations of leaders, and the interaction between the civil rights movement and the wider American public. departure on the part of authorities. actions, as evidence of their fidelity to the rule of law.