"And By Opposing, End Them." The Genre of Moral Justification for Legal Transgression [electronic resource] / Howard S. Erlich.

Public utterances that defend illegal actions on moral grounds which supersede legal grounds display distinct rhetorical features. Rhetorical criticism of Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) and the Antony Towne and William Stringfellow letter in defense of the Berrigan bro...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Erlich, Howard S.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973.
Subjects:	Communication (Thought Transfer) Ethics. Legal Responsibility. Letters (Correspondence) Moral Values. Persuasive Discourse. Rhetoric. Rhetorical Criticism. Speech. Speech Communication.