It wasn't just "neighbors". It was entire states leaving the Union and all the lands inside their boundaries and forming a new nation. A nation has the right to evict a foreign army with which it has no treaty (assuming that they have the military power to do so, of course).
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
What part of the Declaration of Independence isn't valid? Or are you going to go the liberal route and say that the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional?
But had their state governments not started the war in the first place, there would not have been a call for volunteers.
What part of the Declaration of Independence isn't valid? Or are you going to go the liberal route and say that the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional?
You must be a product of the public school system.
How about I go the legal route and say that the Declaration of Independence is not law? It was a statement of the reasons for rebellion against the British crown.