Vocabulary for
"Civil Disobedience"

(page numbers are from the Dover Thrift Edition)

expedient(1)

inexpedient(1)

alacrity(1)

posse comitatus (latin)(2): literally: "the force of the county" We get our term "posse" from this, that is, men above the age of fifteen summoned by the sheriff in emergencies.

redressing(4)

Copernicus(7): Polish astronomer(1473-1543) and founder of modern astronomy. Copernicus proposed that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun when it was generally accepted that the sun revolved around the earth.

Luther(7): Martin Luther(1483-1546), a German priest, biblical scholar and linguist. He was influential in the Protestant Reformation.

abolitionists(8)

impetuous(9)

lyceum(11)

inert(12)

Mussulman(15)

fatalist(15)

Orpheus(16): from Greek mythology: A legendary Thracian poet and musician

Webster(16): Daniel Webster(1782-1852), American statesman and orator

countenanced(17)

rectitude(18)

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