That is also a choice.
I'm an American, so my tendency is to want to create a new state.
That is also a choice.
I'm an American, so my tendency is to want to create a new state.
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Catchy, but, not in the Bible.
The responsibility to overthrow tyranny is literally written into the American and German association founding documents.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
And the Constitution allows for States circumventing the Federal government by calling a constitutional convention.
GERMAN BASIC LAW
"Article 20
[Constitutional principles – Right of resistance]
(1) The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social federal state.
(2) All state authority is derived from the people. It shall be exercised by the people through elections and other votes and through specific legislative, executive and judicial bodies.
(3) The legislature shall be bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and justice.
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available."
The documents that create nation states were not written by God as much as some Americans like to pretent theirs was. That's a lie perpetuated by the politicians to exploit religious moralising for their own nefarious ends.
Irrelevant to the argument that I was making. The rules of the association can contain a right to overthrow the association leadership.
Oh, I thought you were responding to Beave.
I was. I was making the point that I don't need the Bible for this one.
I have no idea what Australia's constitution may or may not say. Maybe we have the "right" to change stuff, maybe we don't. I never saw, let alone signed onto, this so called social-contract. That's just a small part of why I don't really acknowledge the authority of politicians.
We are sometimes bound by contracts our ancestors signed, but we can always choose to leave the association and go someplace else, as they once did.