Okay! Now we're getting somewhere! Now all I have to do is get a majority of the voters on my block to agree and we'll declare ourselves to be the Republic of Bubba Ho-Tepia.
It is *THIS* country which embraced those principles. Therefore, the only country which can rebel against those principles, is this country.
Excellent! So all I have to do is invoke the magic words "Self-Evident Natural Law" and the United States has to either accept that I and my neighbors are now a different country or be in rebellion against themselves! It's brilliant!
Oh, and this isn't a straw man. This is a reductio ad absurdum.
Well given your way of thinking, I would think you could just get all the voices in your head.
Excellent! So all I have to do is invoke the magic words "Self-Evident Natural Law" and the United States has to either accept that I and my neighbors are now a different country or be in rebellion against themselves! It's brilliant!
Your reply simply tells me you have no intention of discussing this topic like an actual adult. The foundation for those "Natural law" ideas were laid out by numerous writers of natural law, such as Locke, Wolfe, Burlamaqui, Puffendorf, Vattel, Rutherford and Grotius.
I suspect you just don't have the mental acuity necessary to follow their process of reasoning, but thankfully the founders did. If you think you otherwise, you can start here with "Lex Rex".