What is henry david thoreaus resistance to civil government about?

a. the role the government should play in peoples lives.
b. the governments obligation to represent the church
c. the institution of marriage as defined by the government
d. the governments involvement in technology and industry

The answer is A: the role the government should play in people´s lives.

Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, which was a form of philosophy that originated in the USA at the turn of the 19th century, focused on the harmony of the human spirit and nature and against the vices that society´s institutions bring onto the individual. In his essay, Resistance to civil disobedience, Thoreau makes an argument against the government´s intrusion on individuals´ consciousness and how people should not permit the government, by that alienating intrusion, to make them agents of injustice against others.  

what excerpt? i would generally think a.