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{{Short description|Wrong or hardship suffered, real or imagined, causing grounds for complaint}}
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A '''grievance''' ({{ety|la|gravis|heavy}}) is a [[wrong]] or [[wikt:hardship|hardship]] suffered, real or supposed, which forms legitimate grounds of [[complaint]]. In the past, the word meant the infliction or cause of hardship.<ref>{{cite web|url=//www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grievance|access-date=21 January 2019|title=Definition of 'grievance'|website=[[Collins English Dictionary]]}}</ref>
Marxist Theory states, "A '''grievance''' is a wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a [[complaint]]."
 
==HistorySee and politicsalso==
* [[Complaint system]]
* [[Harm]]
* [[Zemiology]]
 
==References==
A grievance may arise from [[injustice]] or [[tyranny]], and be cause for [[rebellion]] or [[revolution]].
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The revolt of English barons in the early thirteenth century which led to the [[Magna Carta]] of 1215 was partly motivated by grievances against abuses by [[John of England|King John]]. This right to [[Petition]] the king, for grievances, was affirmed in the [[Bill of Rights 1689]].
 
The [[United States Declaration of Independence]] is mainly an enumeration of the colonists' grievances against [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]]. The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is recognized in the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].
 
==See also==
* [[Alternative dispute resolution]]
* [[Rights of Englishmen]]
 
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