Inspired by the writer’s experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the mexican war, by was published in 1849. nextreset

The name of the narrative is "Resistance to civil government (Civil Disobedience)" by Henry David Thoreau.
In his essay, David Thoreau described that individuals shall not give the Government to overrule their consciences.  Because if people as a society allow this, we basically allow the Government the power to do injustices without any consequences.