"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," - Declaration of Independence. California is in an interesting situation where it is simply too big to govern itself effectively, roughly half of the population is walked over because the other half has a slightly larger population. We don't want to leave the Union just become a new state and usher in an era of economic growth



