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

As a member of society, everyone is subjected to the innumerable number of laws that exist in said nation. While only just laws would exist in an utopian society, oftentimes laws are passed that can be considered unfair such as previous restrictions on voting that existed in the early years of the United States. In order to rectify the wrongs of unjust laws, every individual in society must obey the fair laws and resist the immoral ones.

If every individual were to resist unfair laws, societal injustices would be righted at a much accelerated rate. Laws are occasionally passed which seek to benefit a small group of the population at the expense of another group. For example, in the early United States, only white property owners were allowed to vote in elections. However when this clearly unfair law was originally ammended, the new law gave the right to vote to all white men and specifically forbade women and blacks from voting. Those unjust laws unrightfully discriminated against both woman and blacks while benefiting white men by giving them all of the power to select the leaders. Had every individual in that society resisted those unfair laws, the lawmakers would have had no option but to extend the right to vote to all. Thus, resisting unfair laws provides the potential to force rulers to enact just laws for all.

On the other hand, critics might take offense at how people might be resisting these unfair laws. They could argue that unless the resistance is peaceful and civil, those protesting would be breaking just laws. However while peaceful resistance is always prefered, occasionally violent resistance is necessary. Take as an example the plight of slaves in the early United States. The slaves were being unfairly imprisoned at their owners' estates by unjust laws which allowed humans to legally own one another. This issue divided the Northern and Southern states and ultimately lead to the United States Civil War which resulted in the outlawing of slavery. While many thousands of lives were lost to resist the unjust law, no other peaceful method would have overturned that law. As such, while peaceful resistence is preferable, occasionally the immoral rules will not be adjusted without more aggressive methods.

Additionally, just laws must be followed regardless of an individual's thoughts on them. Many citizens complain about the seemingly unfairly low drinking age laws and speed limits that, according to them, are preventing their rights. However, those laws exist to ensure the safety of everyone including those partaking in those activities. For example, there are limits on the maximum speed a person can drive because those limits seek to ensure that not only will that person be unlikely to crash his own car and injury himself but he will not crash that car into another person. Thus, just laws are ones that must be religiously followed in order to protect everyone.

In conclusion, individuals within a society are required to resist unjust laws and avidly obey those which are fair. Without proper law and order, society as it exists today would crumble.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 144, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...on. While only just laws would exist in an utopian society, oftentimes laws are pa...
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Line 3, column 333, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...ners were allowed to vote in elections. However when this clearly unfair law was origin...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 619, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...ile benefiting white men by giving them all of the power to select the leaders. Had every ...
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Line 5, column 212, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...protesting would be breaking just laws. However while peaceful resistance is always pre...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2614.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 515.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07572815534 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51061578696 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493203883495 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 840.6 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5196884723 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.56 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.56 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220657917356 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745274821583 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0581197266206 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148896460689 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0418466079918 0.0667264976115 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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