![]() ![]() This is because the government often does not serve the public’s interest and can be “abused and perverted before the people can act through it” (3). The essay opens with Thoreau declaring that he believes in the adage “that government is best which governs least,” which he says amounts to “that government is best which governs not at all” (3). This guide utilizes the version found at ( ). Today it can be found in the public domain. The essay’s final form was published in 1866 under the title “Civil Disobedience” in a posthumous collection of Thoreau’s work. The text was originally published in an 1849 essay collection titled Resistance to Civil Government edited by Transcendental writer and educator Elizabeth Peabody. ![]()
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