What are the requirements that have to be met to justify resistance of valid laws? Can we rely on higher principles such as morality and religious conscience to justify disobedience? Is Australia signatory to international covenants on civil and political rights which can anchor a right to civil disobedience? What are the theological foundations and historical examples of justified disobedience?
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