This idea is actually quite old; Socrates himself said this when a friend offered to break him out of prison. Socrates' argument was that if he didn't like the

This idea is actually quite old; Socrates himself said this when a friend offered to break him out of prison. Socrates' argument was that if he didn't like the laws of Athens he could have gone somewhere else, but by staying in Athens he consented to its laws, so it was not his right to break out now, and he should have to face his sentence of death.