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Stagnant Democracy
Democracy, whether in its early or current state, needs constant improvement even if it is a government system that is highly respectful of its constituents.
Henry David Thoreau lived at a time when democracy was finally being recognized as oppressive in itself because the governing system was becoming stagnant. The laws that citizens had to abide to were being criticized because of the injustice its system was already imposing on other races like Mexicans and Negroes. Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson have simply seen that the legal system has become inefficient if not a means for oppression because of its taxes and treatment of others.
Society needs persons like Thoreau and Emerson because they are people who are able to see and declare the evils of society. Only when declarations such as those made by them are given attention can any government or system improve. It is upon reflection of their ideas when true great men can enact changes that would be......

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