When Breaking the law is Justified

All over the world people tend to break the laws. Even though the laws are passed not all people abide by them. This is just like the American’s did the British. The laws were made by the British and the Americans refused to abide to them. People most likely will not go by rules that they did not agree to.

The American Revolution was one of the events when most people did not go by the law. The people in the American colonies didn’t abide by these laws because they did not agree to them. They also wanted to be an independent nation and didn’t want the British ruling them. They were making them pay extra money on anything. Such as taxing everything without an agreement. Meaning without a consent. Also in the time of the American revolution the British killed half of the American citizens and burned their towns. Also large groups of British army troops were put into peoples homes and made to work for them. Such as cooking and washing clothes for them.

Another movement when the citizens didn’t abide by the law was the Civil rights movement. This was the time period when Rosa Parks a very well known woman, decided to sit in the front of the bus. But there was a problem she was an African American and they were allowed to sit in the back of the bus. She refused to sit in the back of the bus. A white man wanted the seat she was sitting in and the bus driver told her to get up, and she said do what you got to do I’m not moving. This movement then became boycotting. Which was when all the blacks refused to ride the bus. They did this to get the people to give them right to sit where they want to sit on the bus.

Those two movements happened in to different times, but they both had an affect on people not abiding by laws for their own rights. These laws where made without a consent of agreement. With out these people agreeing to these laws they fought for their rights. So today the things they fought for are still working in the world today. We live in a free country which the Americans fought for during the revolution. Also blacks and whites are now closer and blacks can sit anywhere on the bus as much as whites. So when breaking the law is justified was well worth doing back then. If not we would not be living the good life today.