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Dialogue: Civil Resistance, how does it work?

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Posted March 5th, 2010 by Philippe Duhamel

Legitimacy tankPower flows from a transaction between the ruler and the ruled. If power were a liquid, it would find its source in the consent of the governed. Civil resistance is consent removed, striking at the core dynamics of power. Is this how civil resisters channel power for change?

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