" It begins, "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'" and describes the night that the author spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax in protest of the Mexican War.
One episode described in this writing ends with the narrator finishing his errand of getting a shoe mended and joining a huckleberry party. After describing a visit to the Navy Yard, where the author saw a Marine who appeared to be a machine rather than a human, it asks why some wish to "crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther." This work predicts that "one honest man" could choose to end American slavery, noting that "any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one." It begins, "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'" and describes the night that the author spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax in protest of the Mexican War. For 10 points, name this essay by Henry David Thoreau.
One episode described in this writing ends with the narrator finishing his errand of getting a shoe mended and joining a huckleberry party.
“{Civil Disobedience}” [or “{Resistance to Civil Government}”]