ENGLISH 5 SRJC MARCO GIORDANO, inst. Prompt Exercise

Although Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau each argue similarly that Civil Disobedience is mandated by the demand of an essentially Christian conscience, they have distinctly different definitions of Civil Disobedience. In order to be able to define this difference, pay attentition to 1. the particular acts each one takes as an expression of his conscience and the intended relation of those acts to the self, government and society. 2. King's definition of a just or unjust law which would justify C..D.in contrast to Thoreau's broader indictment of the kind of government which would do so. 3. the relation of 1 to 2.

Although Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau each argue similarly that Civil Disobedience is mandated by the demand of an essentially Christian conscience, they have distinctly different definitions of Civil Disobedience. In order to be able to define this difference, pay attentition to 1. the particular acts each one takes as an expression of his conscience and the intended relation of those acts to the self, government and society. 2. King's definition of a just or unjust law which would justify C..D.in contrast to Thoreau's broader indictment of the kind of government which would do so. 3. the relation of 1 to 2.

Although Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau each argue similarly that Civil Disobedience is mandated by the demand of an essentially Christian conscience, they have distinctly different definitions of Civil Disobedience. In order to be able to define this difference, pay attentition to 1. the particular acts each one takes as an expression of his conscience and the intended relation of those acts to the self, government and society. 2. King's definition of a just or unjust law which would justify C..D.in contrast to Thoreau's broader indictment of the kind of government which would do so. 3. the relation of 1 to 2.

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