Responding to msg by Jim choate: As to putting them all together, you do a diservice in my eyes. They did not occur together and they certainly did not occur in the same social milieu that the Civil War or the Vietnam War - Civil Disobedience did. There were national events that effected every person. The events that you refer to were local events that eventually effected every person on a national scale. Slightly different animals. ............................................................. Do you mean that a Majority Happening is the only thing which is important in your eyes? That the individual is insignificant when s/he is affected by legislation on a personal basis? That if only one person feels discomfitted by it then it's no big deal because no one else has realized that they've been violated? That life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness is only important when carried out by large groups? That the standard of Good Government is a National Event rather than the quality of individual existence? That a Rose by any other name or any lesser multiplicand is not a rose? Blanc