Rebellion

An organized, sustained armed uprising by a group of citizens or a faction against the authority of an established government, aiming to overthrow, replace, or force concessions from that government, codified in many national penal codes as a distinct offense from the narrower crime of sedition, which criminalizes speech or agitation against the government without necessarily requiring an armed uprising, and from treason, which more broadly criminalizes betrayal of one's own state such as aiding an enemy power. Documented historical and contemporary rebellions span a wide range of causes and scales, from a localized armed uprising suppressed within weeks to a prolonged rebellion escalating into a civil war, and a number of countries, including the Philippines under its Revised Penal Code, maintain rebellion as a specific statutory offense distinct from both sedition and a coup d'etat.