Individual Should Lead to Government and Justice

Henry David Thoreau point out that people’s obligation are those which we should think about what our right is and we should act belong to what we think right against the government, and he believe that it lead to justice.He thinks that “Any government that is not totally just, totally moral, and totally respectful of the individual”(175). I agree with his opinion. The government which is ruled by the majority is never based on justice, he says. People is valued as a good citizen if they respect law and allegiance to the government; however, under such a situation, people serve the government as a just one of institution (soldier etc.,) of the government using their body almost before one realizes it, which means people are not treated and existed as a person under the government. I think that it is a slavery because the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses.
I think the most important thing from Thoreau’ opinion is those that we should be human to judge themselves before governed. If we have some objection to the system of the government, for example, against slavery, it is not enough to vote against it. We should not admit the government as our government, and we do not need to wait for amending the law which made by the majority. There are not including our will and not space to take it in.
As he says, “The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual”(196). The individual should have the power higher that the government. Through Civil Disobedience, government which has justice mean that it can respect and depend on individual, and its power and authority should be used for individual, not for government. Law which has justice is existed for individual.