The conscientious objector in this refuses to participate in. Again, the individual must be willing to take whatever treatment is accorded those who disobey the law. Disobedience to civil government may also involve withdrawal of consent. When it is peaceful, that act requires emigration, as with those who opposed the war in Vietnam, and went to Canada or Sweden for the duration. They required a declaration of amnesty to return to the United States and resume their status as citizens.
Violent disobedience constitutes rebellion or civil war.
This resistance is civil in name only, since the authority of the government is not only denied but resisted by resort to arms. The war of independence and the civil war were acts of rebellion, involving denial or rejection of civil status by those who opposed the government. Nevertheless, Lincoln's declaration of amnesty to the rebellious population of the southern states restored them to citizenship in the republic, in effect nullifying their rebellion. What is called, coercion occurs when individuals are compelled by force to do something that they would not do voluntarily. The individual who surrenders his wallet to a thug who holds a revolver to his head does so under compulsion and involuntarily.