In the context of a discussion regarding states, your "defined area" is a deliberate attempt to be flippant and assholish. It is a childish and deliberately argumentative method for ignoring or degrading a valid point.
What's more, you know it, and you did it anyway.
As for feeling mocked, maybe you should secede since you feel that's sufficient reason.
Straw man again.
Because our founders invoked the Natural Right of Rebellion and overthrew their oppressors by force, not by legalistic invocations.
If the Declaration is the Document which founded the country, (and it is) then those who are "Rebelling" against it, are the ones who refuse to accept it's principles.
Okay, so contrary to what you said earlier, "defined area" isn't enough. It has to be a state.
Why? What makes the state the magical level of sovereignty that's denied to any other entity?
Straw man again.
That's not a straw man. In words of the immortal Foghorn Leghorn, "I say, that's a joke, son."
If the Declaration is the Document which founded the country, (and it is) then those who are "Rebelling" against it, are the ones who refuse to accept it's principles.
So let me get this straight. By issuing a piece of paper with some magic words on it, the Americans rebelling against the British crown (something they'd been doing for over a year at that point) were no longer rebels, but instead the British opposing them were now the rebels.