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Oxymoronic coinage of 35 across5/17/2023 For these reasons and others, the Article aims to show, uncivil obedience deserves much more of the sort of critical attention that has been afforded to civil disobedience. And we suggest that uncivil obedience may be a particularly attractive tactic for ideologically conservative individuals and the contemporary Republican Party. We argue that the challenges uncivil obedience poses to public law values are as substantial as those posed by civil disobedience. We explain that private law has developed more robust defenses against uncivil obedience than has public law, especially in civil-law jurisdictions. We seek to identify, elucidate, and call attention to the phenomenon of "uncivil obedience." After defining uncivil obedience and describing its basic varieties and mechanisms, we explore tools that have emerged to limit its use. This Article asks how to make sense of these more paradoxical protests, involving not explicit law-breaking but rather extreme law-following. As a wide range of examples attest, dissenters may also seek to disrupt legal regimes through hyperbolic, literalistic, or otherwise unanticipated adherence to their formal rules. Omicron Coin (OMIC), a lesser known cryptocurrency, was on a roller-coaster ride for three days. The IPCC 2023 Synthesis Report, released today, tells what we all already know about the dire situation of climatebreakdown. A less heralded form of social action, however, involves nearly the opposite approach. The civil disobedient violates the law in a bid to highlight its illegitimacy and motivate reform. Scholars and activists have long been interested in conscientious law-breaking as a means of dissent.
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