[rockrr]

Up until #1,104 we were talking about ratifying the US Constitution. Then you slipped in a non-existent reference in the DOL. Yes, it was there that disinterest drifted my attention off-point.

My point is and remains that signatories to the ratification of the United States Constitution got no spiffs, no bonus, no commemorative pens. There were no side deals and no conditional language other than what appears in the Constitution itself.

[DiogenesLamp]

My first bit of proof of the legitimacy of secession was the original foundation document of this very country.

So yeah, the Declaration is very relevant to the fact that secession is within the framework of the Constitution.

The three initial states, and the two subsequent ones are just further support for the same legal point.

Do you have anything in writing from say a state legislature or perhaps a US Congress to say secession isn't allowed? (And it has to be from around 1787-1789.)

Opinions of private folk are one thing, but official statements of governing bodies is quite another.