[Ditto]

The thing about contracts is that you can't use one to somehow involuntarily bind a person or entity that was not a party/signatory to the contract. My next door neighbor and I can't sign a contract requiring *you* to give us both something, or obey our instructions, or whatever. Citizens born today into a country founded two hundred years ago have never had an opportunity to ratify such a contract.

So you are saying the only people bound by law are those alive when the law was enacted, and everyone born after that date is free to violate those laws?

Saying that I am bound to a contract that I never had an option to decline is essentially 'might makes right' wrapped in a thin veneer of pseudo-legality.

You are only bound by those laws as long as you reside in this country. But there is no law forcing you to stay here.

[Sloth]

So you are saying the only people bound by law are those alive when the law was enacted, and everyone born after that date is free to violate those laws?

I'm saying that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. The governed (whether they were around at ratification or not) can withdraw their consent at which time the government no longer has any just powers over those people.

You are only bound by those laws as long as you reside in this country. But there is no law forcing you to stay here.

Obstructing secession absolutely constitutes a law forcing me to stay here.