HSRP-678
The law requires government and citizen alike to keep off the path: states by prevention, persons by refusal; the people's right to alter or abolish a government destructive of its ends is natural law, a judgment for the people, not for a court
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
The law requires government and citizen alike to keep off the path: states by prevention, persons by refusal; the people's right to alter or abolish a government destructive of its ends is natural law, a judgment for the people, not for a court
Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC65 (brief item AH65). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED in international law; the people's right to alter or abolish a government destructive of its ends is natural law, a judgment for the people, not for a court — ESTABLISHED as natural-law doctrine". The site records the last resort as the tradition's final rung and does not advocate force (YOUR DUTY; EVIDENCE OF THE BREACH). Radbruch read only as quoted in a 2014 ISSA conference paper; about 17 characters of the middle sentence were not returned, and that sentence is not quoted.
3. What it rests on
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Genocide Convention, arts. I and IV [SRC-1262]; Nuremberg Principle IV [SRC-702]
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Radbruch (1946), as quoted: "Where there is not even an attempt at justice, where equality, the core of justice, is deliberately betrayed in the issuance of positive law, then the statute is not merely 'flawed law', it lacks completely the very nature of law." [SRC-1268]
Sources: SRC-1268 -
UDHR, preamble: "Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind," and "Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law," [SRC-1269]
Sources: SRC-1269 -
Declaration of Independence: "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." [SRC-203]
Sources: SRC-203
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-1262 · PRIORITY · Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, United Nations Treaty Series vol. 78, p. 277 — United Nations (1948)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S166. CITATION as the block gives it (S166): Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Paris, 9 December 1948; in force 12 January 1951), United Nations Treaty Series vol. 78, p. 277, arts. I and IV; United Nations depositary record (Multilateral Treaties, ch. IV.1): United States, signature 11 December 1948, ratification 25 November 1988. READ AT: https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1951/01/19510112%2008-12%20PM/Ch_IV_1p.pdf ; https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Chapter%20IV/IV-1.fr.pdf SCOPE PAGE + H; PRIMARY. The USHMM timeline gives 5 November 1988; the depositary record governs.
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SRC-1265 · PRIORITY · Symposium on the Genocide Convention: Is the Duty to Prevent Genocide an Obligation of Result or an Obligation of Conduct according to the ICJ? — Longobardo, Marco (EJIL:Talk!) (2019)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S168. SPLIT from source entry S168 (two separate publications, both quoted). CITATION as the block gives it (S168): Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2007, p. 43, paras 430–431 (para 431 at p. 222), as quoted in the Declaration of Judge Cleveland, Order of 30 April 2024, Nicaragua v. Germany (ICJ case 193). READ AT: https://www.icj-cij.org/index.php/node/203994 ; https://www.ejiltalk.org/symposium-on-the-genocide-conventionis-the-duty-to-prevent-genocide-an-obligation-of-result-or-an-obligation-of-conduct-according-to-the-icj/ SCOPE PAGE + H; PRIMARY for the clauses on the court's site; SECONDARY for the full sentences. The judgment itself was not reached. ELEMENT(S) OMITTED AS UNCONFIRMED (I08): full case name to confirm.
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SRC-1268 · PRIORITY · The Symbolic Meaning of Radbruch's Formula; Statutory (Non-)Law and the Argument of Non-Law — Rozenberg Quarterly (ISSA Proceedings 2014) (2014)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S171. CITATION as the block gives it (S171): Gustav Radbruch, "Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law" (1946), trans. Bonnie Litschewski Paulson & Stanley L. Paulson, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 26(1) (2006) 1–11, at 7, as quoted in "The Symbolic Meaning of Radbruch's Formula; Statutory (Non-)Law and the Argument of Non-Law," ISSA Proceedings 2014, Rozenberg Quarterly. READ AT: https://rozenbergquarterly.com/?p=22117 SCOPE PAGE + H; SECONDARY. The OUP text was not reached. Not yet verified. EVIDENCE OF THE BREACH may register Radbruch already (German text): link that record and add this translation.
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SRC-1269 · PRIORITY · Universal Declaration of Human Rights, G.A. Res. 217 A (III) — United Nations General Assembly (1948)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S172. CITATION as the block gives it (S172): Universal Declaration of Human Rights, G.A. Res. 217 A (III) (10 December 1948), preamble, recitals 2 and 3. READ AT: https://india.un.org/en/download/148244/253557 SCOPE PAGE + H; PRIMARY. Probably already registered: reuse.
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SRC-1276 · PRIORITY · Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. L. Rev. 593 — Hart, H. L. A. (1958)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S181. CITATION as the block gives it (S181): H. L. A. Hart, "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals," 71 Harv. L. Rev. 593, 620 (1958). URL (an NYU-hosted copy was read in the earlier breach research). SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY. Only the words "too evil to be obeyed" are quoted. ELEMENT(S) OMITTED AS UNCONFIRMED (I08): to confirm.
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SRC-203 · PRIORITY · Declaration of Independence — Continental Congress (1776)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded2026-09-22, VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT at the National Archives transcript and quoted on /pv-remediation. STRUCTURAL POINT RECORDED: the trial-by-jury grievance is not free-standing. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:" is one of the particulars listed under the charge that the King "has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws" — so the Declaration itself files it as a JURISDICTIONAL grievance. The Halifax practice appears in the same list as "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences". THE ORDINAL IS NOT CARRIED: the brief cited this as "Grievance 18", but the Declaration numbers nothing, enumerations differ by convention, and two independent counts here produced different ordinals. The page quotes the text and names its parent clause instead. PINPOINTS from /the-righteous-and-the-corrupt-sovereign: the second paragraph, governments instituted "to secure these rights", the long train of abuses "pursuing invariably the same Object", the right to alter or abolish a government destructive of these ends, "light and transient causes", and "let Facts be submitted to a candid world"; the grievance on judges made dependent on the King's will alone; and the petition paragraph, "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms". ALL SEVEN VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 against the National Archives transcription. PINPOINTS from /evidence-of-the-breach: eleven quotations - "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."; the standing-armies, judges, taxes, trial-by-jury and abdication grievances; "a long train of abuses and usurpations"; "pursuing invariably the same Object" and the single word "invariably"; "Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."; and "evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism". ALL VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 against the National Archives transcription. The two grievance lines end with colons in the original, which the page omits. ALSO CITED ON /two-party-hive-mind for the fact that a Congress declared independence in 1776. NO WORDS OF THE DECLARATION ARE QUOTED on that page. SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, 2026-10-18: S114 cites this record. PINPOINTS: "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"; "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:"; and "He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;". S114-AMEND CLEARS S114's two open elements: the URL is the National Archives transcription (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript, "The spelling and punctuation reflect the original"), read this pass, and the entry's "Not yet verified." flag is withdrawn for the two sentences read there.
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SRC-702 · PRIORITY · Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nurnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal — International Law Commission (1950)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedPINPOINT from /evidence-of-the-breach: Principle IV - an order of his government "does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him". VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 against the International Law Commission's own text, the full principle reading "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." The ICRC page printed on the site is a JavaScript shell to an automated fetch, so the UN/ILC text was used for the check. CITED ON THE PAGE AS A PARALLEL ONLY: the Principle concerns responsibility for crimes under international law. No record for it existed in this register before this entry. SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, 2026-10-18: cited by this block for BOTH works this record holds, with the pinpoint naming which. S139 cites the 1950 ILC PRINCIPLES (Principle IV). S140 cites the 1946 IMT JUDGMENT, "The Law of the Charter". THE RECORD HOLDS TWO DISTINCT WORKS - the 1950 ILC formulation and the 1946 judgment, different bodies four years apart - and is cited as it stands rather than split, because live pages already cite it: a register-wide repair, logged, not done here.
5. Counter-evidence
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The duty to prevent is "one of conduct and not one of result" [SRC-1265] (ICJ 2007, para 430, as quoted in a scholarly blog).
Sources: SRC-1265 -
Radbruch's formula is contested among legal theorists; Hart argued for calling such laws law that may be "too evil to be obeyed" [SRC-1276].
Sources: SRC-1276
6. Why this grade
ESTABLISHED in international law; the people's right to alter or abolish a government destructive of its ends is natural law, a judgment for the people, not for a court — ESTABLISHED as natural-law doctrine
The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.
7. Correction history
No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.
8. Related observations
No related observations are linked in the register.
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- Sovereign Citizens“The law requires government and citizen alike to keep off the path: states by prevention, persons by refusal — ESTABLISHED in international law; the people's right to alter or abolish a government destructive of its ends is natural law, a judgment for the people, not for a court — ESTABLISHED as natural-law doctrine”
Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens, /collapse-of-nations, /entheogens, /evidence-of-the-breach, /freemasons, /legal-self-disclaimer, /national-security-notice, /natural-law, /pv-remediation, /the-righteous-and-the-corrupt-sovereign, /two-party-hive-mind, /united-states, /your-duty.
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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