(08-11-2021, 03:41 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: In a ways, yes. Thing is, here in the USA the only recourse for a private citizen in this case is to take the matter up with the Judiciary Branch. This is usually were you will see court cases with names like "So-and-So vs. The United States".
There are other means as well. The Founding Fathers, IIRC, did leave a provision in the Constitution that would allow for the peaceful dissolution of the current government, and a subsequent meeting of representatives to work out a new system of government.
Note that this would only apply to the Federal Government. In such an event, State Governments would revert to acting as sovereign territories, so it's not like there would be no government at all in the interim. This would probably be the only way for a State to legally secede from the Union as there will no longer be any rules barring that. It would be a simple matter of choosing not to participate, with words to the effect of "We, the people of State/Commonwealth XYZ, feel that our interests will not be served by the next governing body."
The only other option is an armed revolution. I won't deign to call Trump's gathering of Good Old Boys at the Capitol anything other than an unlawful insurrection. While they may feel that the election results wasn't what they wanted, they have no proof as the entire process was entirely and completely transparent. The only way for it to have been any more transparent would be if you revealed who voted for who, but we all know how terrible of an idea that is.
On the last point, while what they did was pants on head retarded, causing it an insurrection is a bit of a reach, especially since they had no feasible way or coherent plan for overthrowing the US government. It was a gaggle of angry people in D.C. being imbeciles over election results they hated, have yet to see proof they planned a Guy Fawkes-style plot or anything. If anyone has proof to the contrary, please let me know.
As for the legal question, when a government breaks its contract to the people, then it has, by the original definition of the social contract as defined by John Locke, broken faith with the people and that could be considered treason if done with purposeful malice. This, however, would require abuse of power so bad as to be a clear slap to the face to the powers reserved to the people or of the states as applied to the United States, and I cannot recall any event of that magnitude. Even the American Civil War did not rise to that level, the southern states seceded of their own free will, Lincoln made clear he would do nothing more than enforcing control over federally reserved areas only as he was well aware was the legal limit of his own powers, thus placing the ball in the seceded states court to make their secession legal insurrection against the government, a ball they picked up via Fort Sumter.