Abstract This article sketches a case for the importance of allowing and protecting civil disobedience in democratic society. There are weighty reasons non-enforcement certain laws under circumstances, which undermines legalistic claim that justice requires police to faithfully (try to) enforce all at times. Furthermore, questions about how should respond disobedient demonstrations not settled ...

This paper examines the notion of silence as representing civil disobedience in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language (1988). It argues that old woman character play, who visits her imprisoned son, represents figure speaking subaltern. The play’s portrayal subaltern’s rejection state oppression lies Paulo de Medeiros’ argument literature itself is a domain resistance face discrimination. thus act –...

Political parties are important for the functioning and consolidation of democracy – citizens should defend their rights against with agendas that conflict principles liberal types actions permissible depends on conditions political legitimacy closeness to power non-liberal-democratic theories both (un-)civil disobedience violent self-defence relevant here