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Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience

Question 9 • ELA 11B-CR

Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Why does King use this allusion?

Answer
A
to appeal to his critics’ sense of duty
B
to describe an historical precedent
C
to commemorate a famous leader
D
to encourage a consideration of ethics
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