There's no right to secede and no process to secede -- but if you secede and then beat the United States militarily, the dynamic changes. It's very possible, if history is any guide, that the United States will, at some point, cease to exist. But the United States cannot be sued without its consent, and it has not consented to this sort of suit." 's composition is fundamentally different than is that of the United States -- as is its history. The United States was born an expansionist enterprise, and the idea of contraction, it seems, never really came up.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 17:59 UTC