[DiogenesLamp]

None of them accepted the notion of unilateral secession or dissolution “at pleasure”.

Why do you keep using that trivializing term "at pleasure"?

Isn't it up to every people to decide for themselves what constitutes hardship?

I know the English thought the Colonists were complaining about no great inconvenience, and from the British perspective, they were seceding "at pleasure."

Hardship and incompatibility are in the eye of the beholder, and the only beholder that matters are those people who feel they no longer belong with a National government that they regard as oppressive to them.

What constitutes necessary Self Determination is up to the people who want it, not to the people who want to stop them.

[rockrr]

Spoken like a true anarchist.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Why do you keep using that trivializing term "at pleasure"?
Isn't it up to every people to decide for themselves what constitutes hardship?"

Because "at pleasure" is the term of art used by Founders themselves, notably the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.

As we have discussed at length before, Madison spelled out his views on this here.