https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee With your group, discuss Thoreau's beliefs about government. Cite specific textual evidence from the essay to support your ideas. (two quotes) en-us 2022-12-14 18:29:32 UTC 2026-01-18 01:22:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f91d.png https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420962587 "But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil"
- This demonstrates how Thoreu does not believe that the government is efficient. He implies that the government brings much more negative impacts than positive ones.

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"
- He talks about how the government punished those who break rules when in reality, no one is innocent. He is saying that everyone should be in jail.]]> 2022-12-14 18:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420962587 https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420964116 "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded or shall we transgress them at once?" (75-78).

He believes the government is messed up, having us obey to unreasonable laws and limiting the freedom of many citizens

+Putting this unjust to an end 

"How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor" (107-109)]]> 2022-12-14 18:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420964116 https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420964649 Thoreau views the government as a violent source that has too much control over citizen's life. He uses dramatization to get his beliefs across. "If a thousand men were not to pay their bills this year, that would not be a violent and blood measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood" (Thoreau 141-145). He uses blood to illustrate the contradiction of citizens being harmed by following government guidelines as opposed to being safe. Expressing that the government is creating more negative impacts within societies rather than good.]]> 2022-12-14 18:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420964649 https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420965714 Stating that “That government is best which governs not at all," Which shows that Thoreau beliefs about government are we are not really protected by government. 
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." This also shows that there is inequality and unfairness in the government system. Equality should take place when governing. ]]> 2022-12-14 18:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420965714 https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420967927 Thoreau believes that the government should not be capable to dictating the the behavior and actions of the people. In his writing Civil Disobedience he states that "[t]hey force me to become like 
themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men" (Thoreau 185). He believes that the citizens should act upon their own wills and common sense and not listen to the government. He supports the notion that "That government is best which governs not at all" (Thoreau 4). Thoreau does not believe that the government should not have the ability to decide what the people should do.]]> 2022-12-14 18:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420967927 https://padlet.com/navalos9/5v8xxj65mhq8csee/wish/2420967930 Thoreau arguing that the government is useless and did not have the right to receive taxes from the citizens. He said that the government have done many unjust actions and the citizens have the right to defy them. Through this, we could understand that Thoreau support laissez- faire government
"I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one
honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America" (Thoreau 180). 
- "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" (Thoreau 180).

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