The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a literary piece about a man named Henry David Thoreau. He wrote "If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." This, simply put, means that if the law says to do something that will unjustly hurt another, do not do it. Thoreau felt this way about the Mexican War. Therefore …
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…the Mexican War. Although we gained land from sea to shining sea, this was not the main cause that stirred the War... that can be accounted to Mexico's repeated attacks against borders of Texas, and claim to land that should have been settled in the Treaty of Velasco. All in all, the Mexican War provided one of the ways Henry David Thoreau exercised his acts of civil disobedience, and firmly stood up for his beliefs.