Non-violent civil disobedience
"The religious pluralism of the United States is most noticeable when people request to have different holidays taken off from work". In this case "pluralism" simply means two more things coexisting.
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were two political philosophers of 17th century England who tried to give an explanation about the origin of government. They both reacted against the Divine Hereditary Right of monarchs and developed a theory that maintained that civil governments were the result of a social contract, thus, governments were an affair purely of this world and not something established by divine authority.