... war did so for moral reasons, and therefore pronounced that signing the Declaration was an act of civil disobedience and not breaking a law. In his essay "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau writes, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them ... at once?" (Thoreau). The purpose of civil disobedience, in other words, is to call attention to an unjust law, and crusade until it could be amended. The desire to change a law is based ... the government was acting with good in...

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