Symbiotic sovereignty and mutual affinity necessitate written ground rules. Don’t like the ground rules? Leave.
When we didn’t like Britain’s groundrules we didn’t leave. We made them leave.
What is this “symbiotic sovereignty,” anyway? It was always, and according to the thread topic still is, the people who are sovereign. As far as I know popular sovereignty means I’m sovereign. That is, me. So talk all you want about “mutual affinity,” but that’s not popular sovereignty. It includes the right to rebel and no treason or it means nothing.
By the way, I don’t believe in it either, though I find it useful. It feels good to say so out in the open.