Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, [specify] civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance.. Henry David Thoreau's essay …

Civil may refer to: . Civic virtue, or civility; Civil action, or lawsuit; Civil affairs; Civil and political rights; Civil disobedience; Civil engineering; Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces; Civil law (disambiguation), multiple meanings Civil liberties

The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. This count would determine the number of seats in the House of Representatives and how much each state would pay in taxes. The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave …