Civil disobedience is the idea that (1 point)Citizens should overthrow their government with violent means when the government does not represent them.

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Civil disobedience is the idea that  (1 point)Citizens should overthrow their government with violent means when the government does not represent them.

xmoses1 · Answer

False. Civil Disobedience is the idea that citizens have the obligation to disobey their government when they have moral objections to their government's policies. ~Yahoo Answers

nurali · Answer

i think Citizens have the obligation to disobey their government when they have moral objections to their government's policies.

anonymous · Answer

close but not quite.
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance.

nurali · Answer

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