Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey a certain amount of laws or commands put by the government. It is formally, a nonviolent resistance or respectful disagreement. Henri David Thoreau's essay in 1849 on "Resistance on civil government" was then renamed "Essay on civil disobedience". By the time his lectures were published, named "Civil Disobedience", four years after his death,in 1866, the term had achieved usage and was taken into consideration.
In order to seek and form of civil disobedience, one must intentionally break certain laws, such as taking a facility illegally. People have expected that they'll be caught and beaten by the authorities. Mahatma Ghandi has outlined certain laws of civil disobedience as he led India to Independence by the British Empire, and those laws were: no anger, never retaliate surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but to refuse the property that is held in trust.
Ronald Dworkin stated that there are three forms of civil disobedience:
1.Integrity based civil disobedience, it's when a person disobeys a law that he feels is unethical.
2.Justice based civil disobedience is when a person disobeys laws in order to claim some right that was denied to him.
3. Policy based civil disobedience occurs when a person breaks a law in order to change a policy he/she thinks is wrong.
In Egypt we had a great example of civil disobedience, they said that there will be in 11/2/2012, but nothing happened, everything functioned normally, only a minority had protested. And it was a policy-based civil disobedience, at the end it had no affect on the government or the people.
In order to seek and form of civil disobedience, one must intentionally break certain laws, such as taking a facility illegally. People have expected that they'll be caught and beaten by the authorities. Mahatma Ghandi has outlined certain laws of civil disobedience as he led India to Independence by the British Empire, and those laws were: no anger, never retaliate surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but to refuse the property that is held in trust.
Ronald Dworkin stated that there are three forms of civil disobedience:
1.Integrity based civil disobedience, it's when a person disobeys a law that he feels is unethical.
2.Justice based civil disobedience is when a person disobeys laws in order to claim some right that was denied to him.
3. Policy based civil disobedience occurs when a person breaks a law in order to change a policy he/she thinks is wrong.
In Egypt we had a great example of civil disobedience, they said that there will be in 11/2/2012, but nothing happened, everything functioned normally, only a minority had protested. And it was a policy-based civil disobedience, at the end it had no affect on the government or the people.
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