Unless, of course, the majority of voters determines otherwise.
The United States, a sparsely populated territory of 13 former British colonies of whom only white, male landowners had the franchise, was never meant to be a democracy. Only social democracies can unify territories as large and varied as ours has become. Government essentially divides and conquers, buying support by distributing largesse among various groups.
This system of government currently employed by the modern United States is beginning to fray on two fronts. First, the net-tax consumers now outnumber the net-tax producers. Very soon, the government will be unable to find new wealth to tax to fund its continued expansion. For now, the problem is being papered over by inflating the money supply and issuing debt. Second, the 2000 elections were, in admittedly over-simplified terms, 50 million people telling 50 million other people (plus 200 million non-voters) what to do. There is a limit to the existence of such a state of affairs.
And nothing makes makes a better case than that for secession and the proliferation of independent political entities.
"In particular I discuss the role of secession - and the profileration of independent political entities - as an important step toward the goal of natural order..."