[altsehastiin]

Secession, which is part-and-parcel to the right of self-governance, is a human right. It comes to us from god, or if you prefer, it comes to us by virtue of our existence as human beings. As a human right, it exists prior to and above the Constitution. As Jefferson so eloquently put it: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

[Tublecane]

You’d be better off quoting the inalienable part. As in: the right to self-government cannot have been sacrificed by the states and a certain portion of the public 220-plus years ago because it is inalienable. That is, nontransferable.