[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp to Bubba Ho-Tep: "Your assertion is but one more bit of fruit from the poisoned tree of asserting a jus soli claim to citizenship.
I do not believe jus soli was ever legally valid in this nation, despite the misinformed people throughout history who have claimed otherwise."

But your opinion on this is irrelevant to the hypothetical proposed by Sherman Logan, a hypothetical which will soon not be so hypothetical...
If majority citizens of a certain race (or religion, or ideology) suddenly declare their independence in California, or elsewhere, what constitutional obligation does the Federal Government have to recognize such?

Answer: none, unless approved by Congress.

[DiogenesLamp]

But your opinion on this is irrelevant to the hypothetical proposed by Sherman Logan, a hypothetical which will soon not be so hypothetical... If majority citizens of a certain race (or religion, or ideology) suddenly declare their independence in California, or elsewhere, what constitutional obligation does the Federal Government have to recognize such?

Answer: none, unless approved by Congress.

No more so than Parliament. If it is a natural right as our founders have articulated, then it does not need permission from any man made body to assert it. It comes from God, not man.

Is your right to own a gun subject to Congress? Is it subject to a majority? Or is it a basic human right?

So is the right of association and it's corollary the right of disassociation.