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Civil Disobedience and Democracy

In Lancaster, Massachusetts, the sit-in on the steps of the Rowlandson house may not have been justified by the law of the land, but it was indeed justified by fundamental law, and within the Constitution, which specifies our basic rights. In 1856, a time before slavery was outlawed throughout the United States, the Northern states and the Southern states differed on their opinions of slavery in that the North was free and the South practiced slavery. It should be, that every resident of the North is granted the right to live free from the bounds of slavery, whether or not they had been a slave in the South. Fundamental life rights rule above and beyond any bureaucratic statement of law. In essence, the laws and rights that are supposed to govern the land where we live were not created by a free hand, but rather based on ideas that have been in place in governments for hundreds of years prior.
In the case of Jim, the slave who ran away from the......

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