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adapted excerpt from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Thoreau wrote this influential essay in 1849 because he was disgusted with the US government’s refusal to end slavery and with its participation in the Mexican-American War. The practical reason why a majority are permitted to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, but because they are physically the strongest. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not decide right and wrong, but conscience?— in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable1? Why has every man a conscience, then? It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation I have is to do at any time what I think right. ________________________________________ 1. that is, only those issues that don’t have moral implications 2 Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentence. Thoreau reasons in this paragraph that a man isn’t meant to blindly follow the majority’s rules because . Reset Next Evaluating Argumentative Texts: Mastery Test © 2022 Edmentum. All rights reserved.
