Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's approval of a deal to transfer control of 20% of U.S. uranium deposits to a Russian company was a quid pro quo exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation. EXAMPLES Collected via e-mail, 2016.
civil disobedience - a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination); Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience. direct action - a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands. sit-in - a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move. protest march - occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license.
So we can put. legal direct action to one side. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. The definition of âcivil disobedienceâ is narrower, but also more contentious. We will. concentrate on developing this definition, and return to the relation between direct. action and civil disobedience at the end of this handout. To define civil disobedience as any deliberate violation of the law, motivated by a sense. of morality and pursuing a social or political end is too broad.