Union was a one-way door, and the Declaration of Independence doesn't cut it because the colonies weren't cutting loose from an agreement they voluntarily entered into.
The only way out with honor is with the consent of the other states - a so-called Velvet Revolution - otherwise, it's just a violent rebellion.
Sometimes that's what it takes, but don't fool yourself into thinking you can slap some lipstick on that pig and call it anything else.
There is no right, legal or moral, to unilaterally secede from the Union.
If this statement is true:
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
against the depredations of a Monarchy, it is equally true against any compact not honored.
The statement either expresses a fundamental truth, one which legitimizes our entire existence as a country, or those points are invalid.
If they are truth, then they are truth at any time, and in any context.
