by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

Created on: October 24, 2008   Last Updated: December 23, 2010

The Declaration of Independence states the following: "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".

The rights of the people of the United States of America to dissolve the Union are written in this document. Many states such as Alaska, Ohio, Michigan, Vermont, South Carolina, and Hawaii are taking advantage and planning for their independence. It would not even be a bad idea if states or different ethnic groups were to dissolve the ties to a country that has become a failure.

According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the Zogby Poll conducted a survey in which 20% of the American people are of the opinion that states should peacefully secede from the United States of America. The same poll released the result that 44% of those who favour peaceful secession from the United States of America are of the belief that the system including the two party system is broken beyond repair. In October 2006, CNN broadcast the poll of the Opinion Research Group which found that 71% of the American believes that the system is irretrievably broken". Vermont, Alaska, Ohio, and other states were forced to join the Union via various forms of persuasion.

Alaska was the centre of a referendum in 1958 in which the choices were to be a state within the United States of America, become a Commonwealth, remain a Territory, or become an Independent Nation. The year 1958 was at the height of the Cold War and Alaska had natural resources that the elite governing the empire called the United States of America wanted. The Governing Elite in the United States of America manipulated the results by granting the right of military personnel and their family who were stationed in Alaska to vote even though they were eligible to vote in other states. The Governing Elite in the United States also denied the right of the indigenous people of Alaska such as the Aleuts the right to vote by writing the ballots in English instead of their native languages. A referendum of that nature would nullify the legality of Alaska as a state and would allow another referendum in which Independence from the United States of America would be an

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