Government
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Narrower terms:- Government, Resistance to
- Bahai Faith -- Government
- Baptists -- Government
- Catholic Church -- Government
- Church of England -- Government
- Church of Scotland -- Government
- Congregational churches -- Government
- Episcopal Church -- Government
- Episcopal Church in Scotland -- Government
- Lutheran Church -- Government
- Methodist Church (U.S.) -- Government
- Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939) -- Government
- Presbyterian Church -- Government
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School) -- Government
- Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America -- Government
- Protestant churches -- Government
- Reformed Church in the United States -- Government
- Unitarian Universalist Association -- Government
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Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)- Tactics of Christian Resistance (Tyler, TX: Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983), ed. by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
- From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (second edition; c2012), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
- The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (2025), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Vera Kempe, Konstantinos Armaos, Ulrike Hahn, Christoph Abels, Susilo Wibisono, Winnifred R. Louis, Sunita Sah, Christina Pagel, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, Philipp Markolin, Henrik Schoenemann, Ralph Hertwig, Henry Crull, Barry Mauer, Dawn Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, and John Cook (PDF with commentary at zenodo.org)
- Pro-Democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment and Recommendations (Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper RWP22-017; 2022), by Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks (PDF at Harvard)
- Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (originally published 1971; this edition Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013), by Carl Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
- How Nonviolent Struggle Works (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2013), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
- How Superior Powers Oght to Be Obeyd (reproduced from the 1558 edition, with a bibliographical note; New York: Pub. for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931), by Christopher Goodman, contrib. by Charles Howard McIlwain (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2004), by Robert L. Helvey (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852), by William Hosmer
- A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi
- The Russian Revolution (Christchurch: Free Age Press; London: Everett and Co., 1907), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, and V. G. Chertkov
- The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government, by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
- T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Appeasement or Resistance, and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by David Daube (HTML at UC Press)
- Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ed. by Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
- A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submisson and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: With some Reflections on the Resistance made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death, In which the Mysterious Doctrine of that Prince's Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled (electronic edition; originally published 1750), by Jonathan Mayhew, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- The Good Old Cause, Further Discuss'd, in a Letter to the Author of The Jacobite's Hopes Reviv'd (1710), by Charles Leslie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (Cambridge, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c1991), by Adam Roberts (PDF via aeinstein.org)
- Bahá'í Administration, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
- The Church Member's Manual, by William Crowell (page images at MOA)
- The New Directory for Baptist Churches (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, c1894), by Edward T. Hiscox (multiple formats at Google)
- The Primacy of the Apostolic See, and the Authority of General Councils, Vindicated in a Series of Letters Addresses to the Right Rev. J. H. Hopkins, D.D. (Philadelphia: J. Kay, et al., 1838), by Francis Patrick Kenrick (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England (new edition, 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1844), by Edward Cardwell
- The Perpetual Government of Christ's Church (new edition, with biographical notice; Oxford: At the University Press, 1842), by Thomas Bilson, ed. by Robert Eden (multiple formats at Google)
- The Convocation Book of M DC VI, Commonly Called Bishop Overall's Convocation Book, Concerning the Government of God's Catholic Church and the Kingdoms of the Whole World (Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1844), by John Overall, contrib. by William Sancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Parish Clerk (c1907), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Nonconformists Vindicated From the Abuses Put Upon Them by Mr. Durel and Scrivener: Being Some Short Animadversions on Their Books Soon After They Came Forth, in Two Letters to a Friend (Who Could Not Hitherto Get Them Published) (published as "by a country scholar", attributed to Barrett; London: Printed for T. Parkhurst, 1679), by William Barrett
- The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)
- The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)
- Church and Congregation: A Plea for Their Unity, by C. A. Bartol (page images at MOA)
- Ecclesiastical Polity, by National Council of Congregational Churches Committee on Church Polity (page images at MOA)
- An Inquiry Into the Right to Change the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts (with Morse's Report to the General Association of Massachusetts; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816), by John Lowell, contrib. by Jedidiah Morse
- Small Dioceses and State Conventions: Some Remarks on the Polity of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States, by James V. Campbell (page images at MOA)
- Extract from the Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.D., to the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Holden at Morganton, July 10th, 1861, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Code of Canons, by Episcopal Church in Scotland (at scotland.anglican.org)
- Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Livland; Estland; Kurland; Mecklenburg; Freie Reichsstadt Lübeck mit Landgebiet und Gemeinschaftsamt Bergedorf; Das Herzogthum Lauenburg mit dem Lande hadeln; Hamburg mit Landgebiet (fifth volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; originally printed 1913; reprinted 1970), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Das Herzogthum Preussen; Polen; Die Ehemals Polnischen Landestheile des Königreichs Kreussen; Das Herzogthum Pommern (fourth volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1911), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts: Die Mark Brandeburg; Die Markgrafenthümer Ober-Lausitz und Nieder-Lausitz; Schlesien (third volume of larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1909), ed. by Emil Sehling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI Jahrhunderts, Erste Abtheilung: Sachsen und Thüringen, Nebst Angrenzenden Gebeiten (2 volumes, from larger series on 16th century church history, in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1902-1904), ed. by Emil Sehling
- Journal of the Uniting Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Methodist Protestant Church, Held at Kansas City, Missouri, April 26-May 10, 1939 (New York et al.: Methodist Publishing House, c1939), by Methodist Church (U.S.) Uniting Conference, ed. by Lud H. Estes, Edgar R. Heckman, and Cuthbert W. Bates (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Constitution and Discipline of the Methodist Protestant Church (Baltimore: Pub. for the Book Committee of the Methoidst Protestant Church by J. J. Harrod, 1830), by Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Presbyterian Principles, by Francis L. Patton (page images at MOA)
- The Ruling Elder: His Duties and His Opportunities (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, 1951), by Cleland Boyd McAfee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America; and Digest of the Canons Adopted in General Council, in Augusta, Georgia, November 1862 (Augusta, GA: Steam Power Press Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Proposed Constitution and Digest of Revised Canons for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, Reported to the Adjourned Convention of Bishops, Clergymen and Laymen of Said Church, Held in Christ Church, Columbia, S.C., in October 1861 (Columbia, SC: Steam Power-Press of R. W. Gibbes, 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
- The Constitution of the Reformed Church in the United States (2011), by Reformed Church in the United States (PDF at rcus.org)
- Bylaws and Rules (current electronic edition), by Unitarian Universalist Association (HTML and PDF at uua.org)
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