Since it's the US, I'm assuming you are talking about secession. As shown in the civil war, secession was illegal, so to create one's own nation, one would have to defeat the United States Army (#1 in the world right now). If someone can do that, he/she is pretty much unstoppable. Foreign recognition and a signed treaty with the U.S. would probably conclude the deal. sure but you must really not have much else to do with your time
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Practically, yes. Technically, no. The USA wasn't officially founded until the end of the Revolutionary War, and the Declaration of Independence was signed at the start of the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
After the Confederates fired on the US Army garrison on the island of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, Lincoln could not declare war, because that would mean recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. Instead he appealed for volunteer troops to put down a rebellion of the Southern states and bring them back into the USA.
On July 4, 1776, the USA became an independent country. It succeeded from the British Empire. John Adams was leading the push for independence from Britain, and drafted the Declaration of Independence on July 2. It was voted on by Congress on July 4, 1776.
Honestly if I was able to sign it I would. Because USA would NOT be free