Part of our Declaration against the King was due to adverse taxation policies. Most of which were less onerous than that which we currently accept. Sometimes Direct Action is the ONLY way to get things done. A more recent example would be the Civil Rights movement.
Obedience to a foul law is only going to perpetuate more bad law.
If you go back to Edinburough's website you can read in the fact that Tytler never wrote that qoutation down
Do you have a url? Unable to locate the page to which you refer in the University of Edinburough's website.
Such information as I have been able to locate, attributes the quote as being taken from the an 1801 collection of Tytler's lectures, and is most often the source attributed.
Many of his lectures were transcribed by others, and the quote may not have been found amoung his personal "writing" as opposed to notes take by others.
In anycase I would like to see what Edinburough has to say concerning the matter so I can potentially straighten out the attribution of this quotation wherever it comes from.
Obedience to a foul law is only going to perpetuate more bad law.
Only if we fail to press for repeal of such law through the mechanisms provided under the Constitution and continue to elect representatives who maintain the status quo.
The choices you get are
1)obedience to a constitutional though objectionable law while working for repeal.
2) Violation undermining respect for all laws and rule of law and face the potential actions of enforcement with increasing emphasis on enforcement over repealing the law we object to.
I prefer the former over the later. Losing good people to the mercies of the justice system and ever increasing force is not my idea of the best way to preserve the rule of law, and the Constitution.