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Walking out on debt and treaty obligations don't make those obligations go away. It means that fulfilling those obligations places a harder burden on the states remaining. Also, when Florida appropriates federal property it could be accurately said that said property belongs to all states and it's being taken without compensation. That's how.

Then seek a legal remedy. Nations sue nations all the time.

ALL states have the right to be protected by the Constitution.

And ALL people have a right to be protected by the Constitution unless they give up citizenship here for another country. Then they are at the mercy of that country's rules, or lack of. Should these people be forced to continue to pay US taxes because we need the revenue?

This country wasn't founded on the state or nation. It was founded on For the People, By the People and Of the People. If some of those people choose to walk, then so be it.

That, to me, is the scary position.

Individual freedom is scary? That says a lot about you.

Then seek a legal remedy. Nations sue nations all the time.

Really? And in 1861 what was the legal remedy? What court was available for the U.S. to sue in?

And I notice you don't try to justify the Southern actions. Just say "Sue me."

No body is talking about paying U.S. taxes. But the Southern states abrogated responsibility for their share fo the debt, repudiated treaties, stole what they wanted and threatened the central U.S. And you want us all to believe the Constitution supported such actions. How nuts is that?

Individual freedom is scary? That says a lot about you.

Thinking the Constitution protects theft and being a dead-beat says a lot about you, too. As well as your notion that only those leaving had any rights that needed protecting.