The DoI is completely meaningless if the revolution failed.
The “right” subject to conditions, like winning.
Outside of a philosophical argument, unless there is a written process of secession in a federation, then it is an extra-legal action that can be seen by the existing government, as an act of rebellion (or war) because, as I said, the government is charged to keep the nation’s territorial integrity. Not to allow any dissatisfied group to break off, rightly or wrongly, and create a nation out of whatever. You will end up with cities, neighborhoods, blocks, homes, bedrooms, and basements as nations.
Anyone that wants secession had better be ready to win the challenge.
a federation is self serving and sustaining. Don’t look for clauses that allow it to break up. That is a defat for the federalists who put it together. The primary rights belong to people who band together and establish their own political entity.
Let;’s try the pot a little. iraq should have been divided into Kurd, Shite and Sunni three countries. but no, we had to try to keep it together. Now what is the big issue? The kurds have fought for and want their own country. What is the right or concept of freedom that denies the kurds independence? And the same question for Barcelona?