Question

Which statement describes the best example of civil disobedience?

refusing to pay taxes because you disapprove of how the money is being used by the government
not paying for a shirt at the store because you feel it was a product of child labor
driving through stop signs because you believe there are too many in your neighborhood
protesting outside the local jail because you feel inmates are being treated unfairly

Answer 1

Refusing to pay taxes because you disapprove of how the money is being used by the government.

Civil disobedience is the intentional, nonviolent breaking of a law to protest a government policy or law. The tax refusal is a deliberate lawbreaking protest; the others are either ordinary theft/dangerous lawbreaking (shirt, stop signs) or ordinary (potentially lawful) protest rather than deliberate lawbreaking.