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Article: Civil disobedience.
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- LawNow
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Civil Disobedience can be a powerful tool in the hands of the dispossessed and the ignored, as has been demonstrated over the last 100 years in a number of different situations. At the same time, we must be careful not to mistake for civil disobedience what is actually all too often these days, rather uncivil disobedience, in the forms of riots and looting and other forms of criminal conduct that sometimes takes place in the course of large-scale protests and demonstrations that get out of hand. Furthermore, civil disobedience -- which is more of a political concept and philosophy than a legal principle -- is not a defence if one's actions result in a breach of the law. ...