Civil Disobedience Theme

In Civil Disobedience, Emerson uses the theme of civil responsibility to show that people should speak up when they believe that something is wrong. Even though the majority of the population may not agree with what you believe in, you should stand up and do something about it regardless. He argues that a corporation with conscience men is a corporation with a conscience. Because they have one, they should be doing what is right. Law is not always a just use of justice, but the men who use the right laws in the right way by presenting the proper argument about the law, however, is. He believes that unjust laws should be acted against and disobeyed until the laws are abolished or amended.