[lentulusgracchus]

[capitan_refugio, stepping on his shirttail] Secession is the antithesis of good government.

Not if the other 49 States decide that your little state is the national nuclear-waste repository, biohazard dumping ground, and nucelear test range.

Not if the other States decide to plow you under and salt the ground, and forcibly deport your citizens to Antarctica because they don't like them.

It is written in letters of fire in no quadrant of the sky, that the Union has to be eternal, unbreakable or forever just and unassailable in its actions. Secession can be the proper course of action when hateful abuse is the alternative.

[capitan_refugio]

"Not if the other 49 States decide that your little state is the national nuclear-waste repository, biohazard dumping ground, and nucelear test range. Not if the other States decide to plow you under and salt the ground, and forcibly deport your citizens to Antarctica because they don't like them."

Keep your day job. You'll never make it as a soap opera script writer.

"Secession can be the proper course of action when hateful abuse is the alternative."

Any person, or community of persons, can always execute their natural right of revolution if things become oppressive. They don't have to invent phony political theories.