By Lauren Jessup-Little
Candice Delmas in her book A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should be Uncivil provides interesting and novel perspectives on the concept of disobedience. Utilising relevant real-life examples, although at times oversimplified, Delmas undertakes an extensive exploration of the duties and obligations of citizens to undertake principled disobedience, the circumstances in which these duties and obligations arise, the constraints placed on those undertaking principled disobedience, and the types of principled disobedience citizens may undertake to fulfil their duties. She observes that many theorists believe that disobedience violates a citizen’s moral duty to obey the law, but she argues that the duty to obey is defeasible, particularly in circumstances where injustice is so severe and persistent. In fact, in the face of systemic injustice, one has a duty to disobey.
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