When Breaking The Law Is Justified Post (Unit @ Assignment 7)

Assignment 7: When Breaking the law is Justified Post

Back in American history many laws were being broken and not always being justified, only sometimes. Today in America laws still are being broken. American citizens break laws in order for the government to make it a better law. Some laws are just unfair and people feel that they have to break the law in order for the law to be fixed, and fair to everyone. Throughout American History the government wasn’t being sensitive when creating these regulations.

During the American Revolution the Britain had laws that were unfair to the colonists and they felt that they had to break the laws just to show the Britain’s that they were not for their unfair regulations. The Colonists wanted to become an independent nation without the British’s laws. The Britain’s were allowing people to stay in their homes without the colonists consents. They were also taxing the colonists for everything including their natural rights. The American colonists had to figure out a way to overthrow the government. So there was The Boston Tea Party which shipped tea to America and sold it to the colonists for 3 pennies a pound, but it was still going to be taxed. There was the Declaration of Independence that separated the American colonists from Britain and this caused a war to begin.

Even though we had accomplished our goals and was finally an independent nation. The African Americans were still not set free; most of the black population were still slaves and belonged to farmers in the 1830’s in Maryland working under the Underground Railroad. There came along a women name Harriet Tubman to the rescue who sewed and cooked to save enough money to rescue her family from slavery. She eventually helped 300 slaves gain freedom. Harriet Tubman became known as the Moses because she ventured 19 times into the South to alert escaped slaves of danger and give them directions to safe houses. So you see if it wasn’t for Harriet Tubman then there probably would be slaves still working under the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman did what she had to do because she saw her own kind was being treated unfairly because of the color of their skin, and she believed that it was an unjustified law that needed to be justified; so she broke the law. Soon after that it was an encouragement to other Black African Americans and they began to breaks laws.

So you see there is nothing wrong with breaking laws if it’s for a good cause. Some may disagree with that because they believe that a law should never be broken. As you can see the laws that were broken back then lead to something good, it gave everyone equal rights. Everyone then had to abide by the same rules and regulations. See laws were broken back then for independence and freedom. The freedom to give their consents, and to be free from slavery; it elimated all of the taxations that the colonists was being taxed for. Breaking the law changes many of people’s lives and it made our nation a better place. A place where everyone is treated the same.