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The Problem of the Compatibility of Civil Disobedience with American Institutions of Government
Black, Charles
Black, Charles
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Abstract
Professor Black has presented a stirring discussion of "civil disobedience" and "nonviolence" as we think of those terms in the context of the civil rights movement. In examining the effect of federalism on the problem, he suggests that the civil disobedience that we have thus far seen, for the most part, is not really disobedience, but rather is an assertion of the national law against the state law. Another suggestion, a chilling one, is that when the power structure of a state is used to keep a race in oppression so that change by political means is hopeless, then massive and general disobedience is neither an improper response, nor one which the rest of the nation is obliged to aid in suppressing.