active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power
Civil disobedience is when people deliberately refuse to follow certain laws or government orders because they believe those laws are unjust. It matters because it has been a way for people throughout history to challenge what they see as unfair rules while accepting the legal consequences of their actions.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).