You are conflating the natural right of revolution with secession. These are two different things. Like apples and oranges. Right of revolution is extra-legal, secession is a legal act. Usually agreed upon by all parties and or with a process written into the organic law of the organization(for example the EU).
>>OIFVeteran wrote: “You are conflating the natural right of revolution with secession.”
The Declaration of Independence was a declaration of secession, which means it was a notice of withdrawal from the British Empire. A revolution is the act of overthrowing or usurping power from the current government. Castro was a revolutionary, as was Lincoln; the Founding Fathers and the Confederates were secessionists.
You can still call the war of 1776 a revolutionary war, if you like; but it was a war of secession, not revolution.
Mr. Kalamata