What is an individual who attempts to overthrow the government called?

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What is an individual who attempts to overthrow the government called?

Answer 1

George Bush

Answer 2

And if they're bloody terrorists, then some leftists will call them "freedom fighters".

Answer 3

anarchist-revolutionist.  anarchist are just against government, but revolutionistsare out to chnge tjhings....so it only makes sense to combine the two.

Answer 4

There's probably a few words that can be used for this; the first one that comes to mind is "rebel"

Answer 5

lol....Ron Paul.  I support him in doing so, cuz this government SUCKS.

Not sure of the term for the individual but the act is called a coup d'etat.

Answer 6

Obama

Answer 7

Depending on whether or not they are successful they made be called a traitor or patriot.  Insurrectionist or revolutionary also work

Answer 8

A concerned citizen or a patriot according to our founding fathers, IF:

    "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." (emphasis mine)

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 2nd paragraph

Answer 9

agitator, anarchist, dissenter, dissident, firebrand, frondeur, heretic, incendiary, insurgent, mutineer, nonconformist, radical, recusant, sansculotte, subversive, Young Turk, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, revolutionary, revolutionist, or rebel

Answer 10

um....Ron Paul?

Answer 11

Rebel, revolutionary, insurgent

Answer 12

Maybe you could call him/her an anarchist.

Answer 13

Corporatist