The Real Hawkeye: The Declaration also speaks of the right of a people to dissolve the political bonds that connected them to another.
And had the DoI lacked the support of the colonial legislatures and other colonial leadership, it would be a mere footnote to history, if that.
The DoI occurred only after the revolutionaries had invested years into the propaganda needed to win over both "the rabble" and the leadership of the colonies. Similarly, although put down by force, the Southern secession occurred only after years of propaganda that convinced both the people and their elected leaders.
These folks have placed the cart before the horse. They call for secession/revolution before convincing the people it’s a good idea.
If neither a large number Vermonters nor their elected representatives support this thing -- and AFAIK there is no such support -- then it lacks the both the legal and the moral authority to cause Vermont to secede.
Indeed, if by some miracle, these people were able to cause Vermont to secede without the support of either the people or the legislature of Vermont, what they did would be properly described with the words
undemocratic and
coup not
secession or
revolution.
The Real Hawkeye: Not likely, since the Declaration was sent to the King of England to inform him that the colonies were seceding from their political bonds with his kingdom.
And who sent it to him? Not a few hundred malcontents who had the support of neither their fellow colonists nor the colonial leadership. Rather the colonial leadership itself sent the declaration, supported by a sizable portion of the populace. Similarly, in 1860, it was the elected leadership of the Southern states, with the vast support of the citizens, who declared their secession.