[DiogenesLamp]

So repeats DiogenesLamp, endlessly.
But no Founder ever asserted such a natural, unlimited "right of separation".

So repeats BroJoeK endlessly.

Let me make it clear for you. No one has a right to force someone to associate with them. That would be slavery.

No one has to have a good reason to refuse to associate with someone else. It is simply enough that they no longer wish to associate.

I would prefer not to be a member of a coercive state that imposes it's current fad of morality on me.

"Gay Marriage" is but a recent example.

[jmacusa]

Sorry for the typos. Middle aged eyesight.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "No one has a right to force someone to associate with them. That would be slavery."

Of course, you are totally free to leave the United States, any day, any hour, for any reason, real or imaginary, or for no real reason at all, it's 100% your right to separate at pleasure.

But the US Constitution is, in effect, a contract voluntarily entered by "we the people", a contract which can only lawfully be broken under two conditions:

1. Mutual consent, meaning the approval of Congress, or
2. A serious breach of contract such as "usurpations" or "abuses of power" having the same effect.

Unilateral declarations of secession, "at pleasure" were not intended, and are not authorized by our Founders.