Introduction
"A people can therefore resist without violence through disobedience and bring about the collapse of an illegitimate state, for the most ferocious power derives all its power from its people."
Civil disobedience is the accepted and public refusal to submit to a law or power deemed unfair by those who contest it.The term was coined by the American Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, published in 1849. The principle is used today in democracies to fight against certain laws.