"If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible." - 1849
In the excerpt, the author is advocation the philosophical principle known as -
A-legal protest
B-conscientious objection
C-civil disobedience
D-revolutionary action