Civil Disobedience Prose Essay

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which legislators are continually putting in their way.” (30-33)

He is using free trade as an example of what the government is blocking. He insults legislators for taxing and controlling trade with the United States. Thoreau references the Mexican War as an example of the corruption of the government officials.

“Whiteness the present Mexican War, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.” (11-14)

He points out that only a few people have manipulated the government into their tool to start a war that the general population would not have allowed.
Nearing the end of his paper, Thoreau moves more toward reason. “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.” (37-38) He realizes that he will get no where by simply ranting about the necessary abolition of the US government to millions of citizens. He knows he will be much ...

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