EKPOMA REVIEW

One of the factors that have constituted a push-back to the advocacy of civil disobedience in the contemporary world is the ironical justification of the penalization of civil dissenters. In order to effectively treat this oxymoron, we shall in this work be attempting to respond to the following interrogatives: What makes a breach of law an act of civil disobedience? What are the assumptions for civil disobedience? When is civil disobedience morally justifiable? How should the law respond to those who engage in the act of civil disobedience? Albeit, I shall give premium to arguments pertaining to the moral justification of civil disobedience and the legitimacy of punishment on civil dissenter. After weighing the pros and cons for and against these two paradoxes, I shall be acclaiming the assumption that “obligation to the conscience is ultimate and absolute”.

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