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	Quebec, province, Canada - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Quebec is bounded on the N by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, on the E by the Labrador area of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the S by New Brunswick and the United States, and on the W by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay.
		Quebec city and Trois Rivières are on the north bank of the river, and Montreal, the leading industrial center of Canada, occupies an island where the Ottawa River joins the St. Lawrence.
		Quebec was recognized by Parliament as a "distinct society" because of its language and culture and was granted a veto over constitutional amendments.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Quebecprov (1686 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Secession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
		A proposed example of successful secession in the modern era is American Revolution by which the Thirteen Colonies separated from the British Crown.
		Local examples of secession also exist, such as Piedmont, California, which was part of Oakland before seceding from the latter in 1907 and the attempt of Staten Island to break away from New York City in the late-1980s and early 1990s.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Secession (919 words)

	Secession Encyclopedia Article @ FredericksburgArts.com (Fredericksburg Arts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the most famous unsuccessful secession movements was the case of the Southern states of the United States seceding to form the Confederate States of America (states that seceded include Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, and Florida).
		White that unilateral secession by a U.S. state was unconstitutional and that it had no force in statutory law; this was the basis for the Union's assertions that the Confederacy was not a sovereign nation but instead a collection of states in revolt.
		Tensions remained between Canada's two main linguistic groups, however, leading to the Quebec sovereignty movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
	www.fredericksburgarts.com /encyclopedia/Secession (1274 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		See C. Nish, ed., Quebec in the Duplessis Era, 1935-1959 (1970); F. Grenier, ed., Quebec (1972); W. Coleman, The Independence Movement in Quebec, 1945-80 (1984); A. Greer, Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840 (1985); R. Handler, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (1988); H. Guidon, Quebec Society (1988).
		Quebec and Asia: lessons of Japan-Quebec relations in the post-referendum period.
		"Rapprocher les lieux du pouvoir": the Quebec labour movement and Quebec sovereigntism, 1960-2000.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Q/Quebecprov.asp (1821 words)

	Secession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The most notable example of successful Secession in the modern era is the Declaration of Independence by the Thirteen Colonies from the British Crown in 1776.
		More accurately this was a Secession movement as opposed to a revolution.
		Less dramatically, new American states were commonly formed out of an older state as the United States grew, such as in the northeast (Maine created out of Massachusetts), the mid-Atlantic (Kentucky created out of Virginia) and then repeatedly in the western territories.
	secession.iqnaut.net (577 words)

	Law - Canadian Information By Subject
		Canada and the International Criminal Court (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada)
		Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations (Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
		Judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada (LexUM (CRDP) of the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal)
	www.lac-bac.ca /caninfo/ep034.htm (1335 words)

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