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When the law causes harm and injures a group of people who have exhausted all attempts to a resolution it is justifiable to violate the law. The government has the privilege of developing and enforcing laws, which they determine to be just. Just laws promote human wellness and equality, while unjust laws deprive humans of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness causing harm and bias. Laws are made to create order in an otherwise chaotic society; it is unjust to deny constitutional rights to a group of people. The Declaration of Independence declares all people are “created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Individuals in society secure those rights by rendering just powers to the government through his or her consent to be governed. If an occasion arises that any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. Rosa Parks, an elderly African-American woman who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her seat to a white person even though it was the norm established by Caucasians in Alabama. This was a well-known rule for blacks to give up their seats to whites. This way of thinking derives from the Jim Crow laws and segregation laws established in Alabama. These so-called just laws were shocking the conscience and depriving all African-Americans of their unalienable rights to happiness. The law allowed Caucasians to openly disregard the constitutional rights of African-Americans as set forth by the Supreme Court decision in 1954, desegregation of schools. Storeowners in Alabama had racial signs placed in store windows to keep African-Americans from entering the store. African-American leaders decided to set up a meeting with storeowners and negotiate a way to get rid of the racial signs. Storeowners agreed after the meeting to take down all racial signs. Several weeks later the signs were still displayed in storefronts.
Approximate Word count = 1305
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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