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Campus protests are part of an enduring legacy of civil disobedience improving American democracy

  • Written by Lawrence Torcello, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageA protester cleans up after a pro-Palestinian demonstration ended peacefully at Brown University.AP Photo/David Goldman

They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested British Colonial taxes by...

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