I wouldn't be so sure about that. You're 500 posts late to the party and most of what you just claimed has been debated and refuted long before now.
Reading is hard. ;’)
Refute till hell freezes over. Facts are facts. Secession was a right of the states. The greatest proponent of secession was Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson in his First Inaugural Address said, “If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it.” Fifteen years later, after the New England Federalists attempted to secede, Jefferson said, “If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation … to a continuance in the union …. I have no hesitation in saying, ‘Let us separate.’”
At Virginia’s ratification convention, the delegates said, “The powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression.” In Federalist Paper 39, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, cleared up what “the people” meant, saying the proposed Constitution would be subject to ratification by the people, “not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong.” In a word, states were sovereign; the federal government was a creation, an agent, a servant of the states.
Not refuted!
Well sure, if you call making a lot of exteraneous noise about side issues a "debate", but none of it refuted the main point.
The Declaration of Independence establishes a moral and legal right to leave a Nation that no longer serves the interests of it's People.
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Years ago I read an interesting thing. Some Liberal anthropologist used to write about how loving monkeys were, and how they never fought or hurt each other.
She mentioned how a group of them had separated from the main troop, and were apparently establishing their own troop.
Then one day, the monkeys from the main troop attacked the smaller separate troop and slaughtered them. She was aghast, because she had always thought of these monkeys as peaceful and loving, but here they were, massacring their relatives because they had the temerity to leave the control of the Alpha monkey.
I guess some things don't really change, do they?