[Old Teufel Hunden]

"If the citizens of my state all agreed with me, we could, collectively as a State., remove ourselves - and our property (the State) - from the Union."

And what if the people of a state decided they did not want to be ruled by the state (such as my example of Virginia), do they have the right to dissolve the state? What of local governments? Can I get my local township dissolved if we are dissatisfied?

[An.American.Expatriate]

And what if the people of a state decided they did not want to be ruled by the state (such as my example of Virginia), do they have the right to dissolve the state? What of local governments? Can I get my local township dissolved if we are dissatisfied?

Under the US constitution there is no prohibition - state and local laws may, of course vary!

Seriously though - where does the township derive it's "right to exist"? Several people at some point settled some land and decided that it would be better to band together for thier common well being instead of trying to "go it alone". Generations later, an oppresive system is implemented - do the ancestors of the founders have a right to disband and seek new way or are they forced to forever by subjugated?