Non-resistance in relation to human governments

Ballou's early statement of the nonresistance position, from the years of the Garrisonian New England Non-Resistance Society: how the Christian who renounces violence stands toward the state — obeying its just laws, refusing its wars and its oaths, submitting to its penalties without rendering evil for evil. A careful answer to the charge that nonresistance is anarchy, and the seed of the fuller 1846 treatise.

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