Civil Rights Movements: The Boston Tea Party

From the outspoken events of the Boston Tea Party to the courageous acts of the Civil Rights Movements, the United States has been built on the idea of a free society, where all men are created equal, and where equal representation is practiced throughout the states. But throughout history, the laws of the government have sometimes suppressed specific groups of American citizens, causing many to feel betrayed or unworthy in the eyes of our Founding Fathers. That’s why in 1776, the Founding Fathers stated in the Declaration of Independence that it’s the right of the people to abolish or alter any government that becomes destructive of deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. Founding Father, John Adams states that “Government
Yes, it is because of one important point; because it’s the right of the people to do so. If one feels that the government has made laws that are unjust or unconstitutional, they have the right for peacefully resisting that law. The consequences in the short run may be going to jail, but this allows your word to spoken to people who represent you in government, which may lead to that law being removed in the long run. Rosa Parks resisted from sitting in the back of the bus, when she was told to by law. She was jailed, but this cause an uproar in the Civil Rights Movement, which later caused segregation to be abolished. Kim Davis, a county clerk, was jailed in 2015 for refusing to marry gay people because her religious beliefs did not allow her to do so, but this made national news and caused an uproar throughout the country. The country has to realize that this practice is needed to practice the ideals of democracy. Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience states it best, “There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.” The people are the government’s first priority, and what the people believe, is what should be represented.
So, my point is that peaceful resistance to some laws is beneficial to a free market society because if people aren’t allowed to protest on specific issue or law, then are we really as ‘free’ as we say we are. The backbone of this country is built for the people and by the people. And if that’s still true, peaceful resistance can only help out our country, so democracy can stay alive for more decades to