Demanding elected representation is a legitimate reason to become a traitor against a repressive monarch. On the flip side, when every citizen enjoys the benefits of full representation and you try to secede you're attempting to destroy both democracy and the constitutional rights of the citizens in your state. That's not justifiable.
"Full representation" was a joke, right?
And why is it up to you to decide what acts of treason are justifiable and what are not?
If the people of a state collectively decide that they are no longer interested in belonging to the United States, they have that right. If their ideals are so far outside the ideals of the rest of the country, they should not be forced to participate.
That's the current problem with the US right now: we have too many groups wanting to do too many things differently. We are TOO big and TOO different to operate under a single government. That's why certain powers are supposed to rest with the states, because states are more representative of the people who live in them. We would function much better if the United States was dissolved, smaller governments were formed in different regions, and we all functioned together economically and militarily. It works well for the European Union.
The truth is: what is good for California is not good for Texas, and neither should be forced to accept the ideals of the other. But that doesn't mean they can't work together, either.
Can you show where States have a right to secede?
Must be written somewhere
Leberals loved using this document during the healthcare BS, as to why the government has a right to mandate healthcare policies.
Well this same document is more for a reson of desoving this current government then it was for government healthcare control. This certain document starts off by talking about ANY GOVERNMENT.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
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.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
