Citing the 1st and 10th amendments as valid constitutional grounds and obligation for all states to petition the federal government for secession and emphasizing the fact that it is the constitutional right of the states to petition the federal government for secession when said federal government no longer constitutes a viable representative entity to said states and their people. Government are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that when any form of government become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government.



