Inverarity is not a Scottish village

What laws should the person follow though? By your definition Law and Chaos is completely subjective to what society a person happens to be in and a Lawful person instantly becomes Chaotic if he strongly disagrees with a new law that is passed, and Lenin and Castro instantly switched from chaotic to lawful the second they won, for it to have meaning as alignment the person's own philosophy has to come into it somewhere. Abraham didn't break the law first, the Confederation did when it declared a lawfully elected congressman an enemy of the state without due process. The fact that Thorn no longer follows the confederation law is because a) he's not stupid and doesn't want to die in prison and b) He no longer has any reason to view the government as legitimate. There may be a lot of steps he could take between being a congressman and being a revolutionary leader, but when the Jackbooted thugs are coming after you the options tend to narrow down to fight, run or surrender.