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"If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."

- 1849
In the excerpt, the author is advocation the philosophical principle known as -
A-legal protest
B-conscientious objection
C-civil disobedience
D-revolutionary action

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C or a , this question is a bit difficult to understand but I hope I helped by narrowing it down
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Answer:

I think its C

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hope this helps

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