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"Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection" published on by Oxford University Press.

This article is based on a speech delivered by Judge Frank M.Johnson, Jr. to the faculty and students of the Vanderbilt Law School. Judge Johnson's thesis is that "civil disobedience" presents a special challenge to judges and lawyers. He feels that there are alternatives to "civil disobedience" for challenging and protesting the law and that lawyers have a duty to inform the public of these alternate methods. Only in extreme cases does Judge Johnson believe that "civil disobedience" is justified. He illustrates his thesis with a discussion of the events surrounding the Democratic Convention at Chicago.

Perhaps the most frequent criticism of communitarianism is that it is too sympathetic to community & too hostile to individualism. It is alleged that the community & its agent the state, are given too much power & hence the important role of dissent is dangerously marginalized. To evaluate & respond to this criticism, this paper expounds the communitarian understanding of citizenship & addresses communitarians' critics, in part through a close reading of Charles Taylor's "Atomism." Some forms of communitarianism, especially those that put an emphasis on citizen participation, have an adequate response to the critics. Moreover, in some ways communitarianism has a better understanding of, & a more central role for dissent & civil disobedience. 33 References. Adapted from the source document.

Logical, ethical, legal, and political aspects.