Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and to disobey and resist unjust laws.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure

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Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and to disobey and resist unjust laws.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

The claim states, that as individuals, we are responsible for following the just laws and disobeying unfair laws. The claim doesn't stray far from examples like the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and all the other revolutions that granted the people with the right to just laws that they get to determine. In order to achieve--as an American dreamer may call it--freedom, each individual is responsible for partaking in their governement, either by following the just laws, or by disagreeing and changing unjust laws that are not for the people.

As mentioned in the introduction, there have been many revolutions in which the people had to rise to action against unfair laws. In the United States we started a revolution because of unjust tea taxes. Individuals began by obeying just laws, but when the laws became toxic, unfair, and not for the people, it was their responsibility to revolt. However, it wasn't just because of expenisve taxes. What was needed was freedom so that everyone had access to making just laws that they could obey as a society. The same happened in France where a revolution was needed to eliminate the status quo, an unjust law that was resisted. But let's not go that far back in history. We can simply think about the present. It's our duty to follow just laws like wearing seatbelts--they are there to keep us safe. But we also have a responsibility to disobey unjust laws. In the United States, this is mainly done through civil disobedience. Individuals resist laws they believe are unjust through protests to bring about change. For example, LGBT community strived to receive equal rights and continued to protest unrepresenting laws until they acquired just laws. Therefore, individuals have a responsibility of being part of their government so that the laws are represnetive of their rights.

Furthermore, just laws are there to keep us safe. We must follow them in order to keep ourselves and others safe. For example, wearing seatbelts and not driving under the influence. Every individuals is responsible of following those laws. However, when the laws become unjust, such as the tolerance there is in the law for tolerance against DUI drivers, it is important to take action. Organizations like "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers" or MADD come together to resist unjust processes that take place when charging these drivers and to bring awareness. In the long run, organizations like this are trying to bring about change that will benefit the whole community.

On the contrary to this claim, individuals who following every rule and law live in a tyrannical or autocratic government. As cliched as it may sound "rules are meant to be broken." A current example is those who live in North Korea, a tyrannical government. Everyone must follow all the rules. Those who disobey are often sent to concentration camps, exiled, or even killed. If the contrary claim were to be true, it would be the responsibility of every individual to report every person do deserted the country, even if that meant they would be killed for doing so. Unjust laws are unjust for a reason and can result in cruel punishments for people, which is why they should be resisted if they are not for the good of society.

Therefore, until found not just, a just law should be followed to ensure the safety of yourself and others, whereas unjust laws should be resisted and disobeyed because they are usually cruel to society and result in dangerous acts. It is every individuals resposibility to keep their governement for the "people" by doing this.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, whereas, for example, such as, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3010.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 598.0 442.535393258 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03344481605 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94510247834 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89385607294 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44983277592 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 941.4 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.9003358369 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0625 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6875 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21875 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285573312863 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07715880518 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0681495269529 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177018366253 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0379234144106 0.0667264976115 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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