[Fiji Hill]

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."

To me, dissolving "the political bands" sounds like seceding.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

They’d also been fighting a war for over a year by the time they issued the Declaration. You can’t claim that they thought they were peaceably seceding by issuing a joint statement of independence at that point.