“No one may restrict or limit the sovereignty of the Nation or arrogate to himself the sovereign powers belonging to the entire Nation. The Nation and each citizen shall have the right to resist anyone who encroaches on the independence, territorial integrity, and constitutional order of the State of Lithuania by force.”
No one may restrict or limit the sovereignty of the Nation or arrogate to themselves the sovereign powers that belong to the entire Nation. The Nation and every citizen have the right to resist anyone who uses force against the independence, territorial integrity or constitutional order of the State.
In January 1991 unarmed people defended the Seimas and the Vilnius TV tower; that is the kind of resistance to a forceful attack on independence that this article now guarantees as a right.
Remember that the right to resist belongs to the Nation and to each citizen, and that the encroachment must be by force. Questions often ask which three things are protected: independence, territorial integrity, constitutional order.
Practice with questions about this article