[DoodleDawg]

I do not define my understanding on the basis of what other people assert.

LOL! Everybody else is wrong and you're right. Is that I?

The previous government had been deestablished in accord with the right asserted in the Declaration of Independence.

LOL! Or it would have had they won their rebellion. Alas for you they did not.

Refusing to accept the lawful result of people exercising their right to independence in according with established law, is "rebellion."

Oh barf.

[DiogenesLamp]

LOL! Everybody else is wrong and you're right. Is that I?

Such a situation may be rare in your life, but it has been common enough in mine. I literally marvel at some people's inability to think clearly.

LOL! Or it would have had they won their rebellion.

Their winning or losing does not change the fact of their right to leave. It simply says might beats right.

Oddly enough, this is the very premise slavery itself is founded on.