Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government is about how the government doesn’t handle the civil issues. However, Thoreau agrees that the government and higher ups only do anything unless it affects them. Thoreau also talks about truth in relation to the government. In paragraphs 11, 14, and 15 the reader can make the move to theorizing in the sense of truth, right, and consciousness. The concept of the right can also be the concept of truth plus all rights are based on circumstances. If this happens to be circumstantial this means that your consciousness is also circumstantial. Therefore if your consciousness is twisted then your concept of right is also twisted. If this is all true then everyone is compromised on everything because in someway your right is wrong.
http://commons.digitalthoreau.org/civil/resistance-to-civil-government/rcg-1-14/?s=conscience