[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "But I think I know what you mean.
You mean that post-modern liberals in the U.S. that control the federal government will never allow a peaceful breakup of the empire like the communists in the old Soviet Union did."

Naw...
I meant that the whole question of unilateral, unapproved declarations of secession at pleasure, was removed from any further discussion on and around April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House, VA.:

[jeffersondem]

” . . . unilateral, unapproved declarations of secession . . .”

Sorry, don’t remember that phrase in the DOI or U.S. Constitution.

It sounds like something you made up; or maybe the fulminations of A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant . . .