Gentlemen, do not get me wrong. You can ALWAYS break a contract through breach. However, you have to understand that a breach of the contract comes with costs. At times, it may be that the costs of breach are lesser than continued performance under the contract. That is a decision that may be rationally made.

Not unnatural as accident, but according to man’s essence.

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Bill writes : “You argue that secession is a right when it suits your case, but not when it falls short of your ideals.”

There’s a difference between a sovereign entity withdrawing from a pact to which it has delegated powers, and a the withdrawal of a body whose sovereignty is in potency. The former is not unlike a parent who delegates to a school to teach his children. The authority to teach is inviolably in the parent who can remove his child from the school at will.

You argue that secession is a right when it suits your case, but not when it falls short of your ideals. Not a very strong leg to stand on, LTG.

What is a “right” in this context? Does a community of a higher order which is by nature sovereign have a duty to recognize the potential sovereignty of those community within it, so that if those communities within it desire to be actually sovereign, the higher community has a duty to recognize that sovereignty?

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A single man or family can emigrate to another society. But it’s unnatural for him to be an island.

..because only a government has the right to withdrawal from another government? based on “philosophy?”

Your question assumes that a State can be properly under a higher secular authority. But to all natural things there is a limit.

As I wrote previously, sovereignty exists in the multitude because man is by nature a political animal. Thus while the a social contract does not of itself recognize the nature of man as that which properly scales society and thus likewise scales the sovereign, because to all natural things there is a limit. And thus sovereignty exists in the multitude according to the nature and scale of man.

A sovereign multitude which in the case of the US delegated powers as the 10th Amendment explains. Which is substantially different from ceding authority.

Does every citizen of every city, county and state then have the right to secede from all forms of government authority under which they exist so as to render themselves a nation unto their own?