>If a group of people doesn't want to be governed by a certain body they should have the right to secede. If you follow this principle to the extreme then laws

>If a group of people doesn't want to be governed by a certain body they should have the right to secede. If you follow this principle to the extreme then laws become essentially voluntary, which contradicts the whole meaning of law. I think democratic principles can never be applicable to decisions about the existence of the entity as a whole in the same way they apply to governing an existing entity.