[rockrr]

That’s OK. Fortunately the Founding Fathers were so good at it they didn’t even call it doublespeak.

[Svartalfiar]

That’s OK. Fortunately the Founding Fathers were so good at it they didn’t even call it doublespeak.

Nope. They had royal charters that required them to be loyal to the King of England and obey the laws of the British Parliament. No room for secession in those! Yet, somehow, the Founding Fathers managed to secede from the crown and create these United States.

How is that any different than the Confederate states seceding in the 1800s? If anything, the fact that secession is not explicitly prevented in the Constitution (it's embraced in the Declaration of Independence!), it would fall under the tenth Amendment - rights/powers reserved to the people/states. Secession is also NOT a power reserved to the states as a whole - Try reading Article II, Section 8.