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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE      Meaning: According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics, civil disobedience is “a political act involving disobeying governmental authority on grounds of moral objection with the aim of promoting a just society.” According to Heywood (2007) civil disobedience is law-breaking that is justified by reference to “higher” religious, moral or political principles. It is an overt and public act; it aims to break a law in order to make a point; not to get away with it. This assertion by Heywood vividly shows that civil-disobedience is a deliberate act.      Moreover civil disobedience has also been defined as intentional or voluntary violation of order or disrespecting a constituted authority. According to John Rawls (quoted in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007), “civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a ch...

Spring Theory is social science theory which was founded by Andrew Oforma Eze in August, 2017. Andrew is a Political Scientist. What is spring theory? It is an anti-thesis to elite theory. In nutshell, spring theory is a socio-political theory which sees masses as elastic in nature which can absorb and endure pressure, humiliation, oppression, and other inhuman treatments by the state and its machinery, but must surely spring up or bounce back t the oppressors. The Major Propositions of Spring Theory according Andrew Oforma Eze, the proponentincludes: 1. That masses are not ignorance of socio-political systems that they are only resilient of them contrary to elite theorists perception. 1. That masses are not apolitical, myopic , unintelligent, inert etc., as claimed by elite theorists 2. That every society will under go either revolutionary or revolutionary changes. 3. That revolution is not evil but a necessarily societal change anchored by majority will.