“Natural law dictates that people may leave whenever they wish, and for whatever reasons suit them, and they do not have to beg indulgence of others to do so.”
Reductio ad absurdum. What you have defined is anarchy not natural law.
There is not a single significant contributor to the Declaration or 1776 that ever would have penned such a statement. Years of reasons and pleadings and petitions preceeded Lexington and Concord.
Your ignorance of this history is breathtaking.
That is what the British said as well.
There is not a single significant contributor to the Declaration or 1776 that ever would have penned such a statement.
And so you presume to speak for them? I think their words and deeds speak for them far better than your attempts to foist this incorrect and ignorant position.
Years of reasons and pleadings and petitions preceeded Lexington and Concord.
And what was the effect of all these "Years of reasons and pleadings and petitions"? If you say "No effect at all!" Then you are moving towards the beginnings of wisdom.
The Union of Britain rejected all of their "causes". None of them were sufficient to convince the King to let the 13 states secede.
Presenting the list of "causes" turned out to be just so much pomp and circumstance for any good it did. Ergo, it really wasn't relevant to their right to leave.