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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience : original title: Resistance to Civil Government

Henry David Thoreau

1849

Abstract

In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum entitled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government". This formed the basis for his essay, which was first published under the title Resistance to Civil Government in 1849 in an anthology called Æsthetic Papers.

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