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Civil olydnad i Sverige: - Går det att rättfärdiga?
University College Stockholm, Stockholm School of Human Rights and Democracy, Department of Human Rights and Democracy.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Civil Disobediance in Sweden : - When is it justified? (English)
Abstract [sv]

John Rawls defines civil disobediance as a ”public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government.” (Rawls, 1999:320). Rawls has developed a theory of civil disobediance that has been widely discussed (Månsson, 2004:153). His theory explains when one can break the law and what has to be taken into consideration (Rawls, 1996:345-346). The theory is designed only for the special case of a nearly just society where the members of the community are rational beings. Rawls has a democratic and constitutional perspective that cares for a stable state power. The theory has been criticized by philosophers such as Kimberley Browlee and Tomas Månsson that claim that it is too narrow (Månsson, 2004:157-159, Brownlee 2012:2). The Swedish legal system does not regulate civil disobediance in any particulary law, rather it is the criminal acts that are connected to the civil disobediance that are prohibited. A dilemma for the criminal law is the amount of tolerance that should be allowed for criminal acts that we morally can understand (Asp & Ulväng, 2019:13). In common practice there has been a very low acceptence of civil disobediance. There has not been any case of discharge and the court has expressed a concern in judging these acts too light (NJA 1982 s. 376).

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2020. , p. 45
Keywords [sv]
Civil olydnad, John Rawls, Straffrätt
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-1008OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-1008DiVA, id: diva2:1392482
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Human Rights
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Bachelor’s Programme in Human Rights
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