Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> But that would be based expressly on our moral commitments and
> would not involve an appeal to democratic procedures with the claim to
> therespect those can command simply because they are the correct procedures
> for making laws. And it would be illegal, we should expect to suffer the
> normal penalty for breaking the law.
>
Not if we can get away with it.
Treason doth seldom prosper, what's the reason. For if it prosper, done dare call it treason.
?Harrington?, late 16th c.
Quoted from memory. I may have a syllable or two wrong.
Carrol