Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sue Rodriguez, Robert Latimer, United Nations Trusteeship Council
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Law exam notes thursday, may 26, 2011: civil disobedience. It involves a deliberate violation of selected laws. It is designed to create a crisis and establish creative tensions so that a. Civil disobedience is the moral justification, generally on the part of a number of people, for disobeying a law general right of the state to make laws. Rather, it calls into the question the power of the state to act in certain areas. community that has refused to negotiate is forced to confront an issue. shaming the community into action. Breaking what you believe in is an unjust law for moral reasons: Morgentaler: dr. henry morgentaler is a holocaust survivor who immigrated to canada after the war and started a successful medical practice. In the end, they change the laws and legalize abortion. Morgentaler believed that the law was wrong, and took drastic action to get it changed.