Wow, how wrong is that. With the end of the Civil War secession became impossible. So the ultimate check against federal power and tyranny was lost (temporarily IMO).
"The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded. On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate the slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could thereby [be] induced to stay in the Union. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals."
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) Abolitionist
I have read Lysander Spooner.
I am not impressed by his reasoning.
I left the Libertarians because their actual effects were exactly opposite of what they were trying to accomplish.