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Essay / Social Contract Theory - 775
The reason for civil disobedience is that when people do not benefit from obeying laws, they will try to oppose or break them. For example, the movement led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi against British rules in India and the American civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. Both movements refused to obey the rules, but we can justify their action because we only agree to obey the rules if that is the case. benefits us. In India British rules did not benefit the Indian population and in America only a certain group got all the benefits and other groups did not get them.