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	Secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other secession movements include the case of the Southern states of the United States seceding to form the Confederate States of America.
		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.
		In addition, Canada has had the chronic threat of the province of Quebec seceding in some fashion from the confederation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secession (939 words)

	Constitutional Amendment to Secede
		Therefore, whereas the United States of America is a voluntary association, it is resolved that any state may secede from the union by the same procedures by which they originally joined.
		If a state or region wanted to secede, that would be the public sovereignty or democratic decision.
		The 13 original colonies would not revert to English rule which they renounced in the Declaration of Independence of July 1776 or even to the Articles of Confederation but to their natural state of independence as during the Revolutionary War.
	members.tripod.com /~wwx2/amendmen.html (660 words)

	If At First You Don’t Secede
		Any defense made of the right to secede from established political authority is often met with expressions of disbelief at the temerity of even asking such a question.
		Philosophically, any denial of the right of people to secede from a political system is also a denial of the legitimacy of the state itself.
		As I developed in a prior article, the modern state is premised on a "social contract" theory wherein men and women, being free to act individually to protect their lives and property from wrongdoers, may establish a political system to perform this function on their behalf.
	www.lewrockwell.com /shaffer/shaffer26.html (1608 words)

	Kurds say they have no plans to secede - The Boston Globe
		BAGHDAD -- Kurdish leaders insisted yesterday that they have no plan to secede from Iraq even if they want the new constitution to give them the right to do so -- one of the issues that forced a delay in finishing the draft charter.
		Meetings were to resume today among Iraqi leaders seeking to finish the draft by the new deadline -- midnight next Monday.
		The delay was an embarrassment for the Bush administration, which insisted that the original deadline be met to maintain political momentum and blunt Iraq's deadly insurgency.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/17/kurds_say_they_have_no_plans_to_secede (375 words)

	Canada challenges Quebec's right to secede
		TORONTO -- A momentous legal battle to save Canada was mounted yesterday as the government challenged the right of Quebec to secede without the agreement of the rest of the country.
		The government is not denying Quebec the right to secede, since the Canadian Constitution does not declare that the country is indivisible.
		But government lawyers insist that the constitution does not allow the voters of just one province to determine the future of the entire country.
	www.recordonline.com /1998/02/02-17-98/cana.htm (396 words)

	Civil War - The Southern Right to Secede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		President Lincoln himself said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Had the Northerners allowed the South to secede peacefully and keep their way of life, both countries by themselves could have become quite prosperous; could have continued their trade with one another; and might have eventually formed new alliances.
		Many Southerners favored the idea of secession and supported it with the theory of states' rights which says that each state is independent and has the power to decide whether Congress passes laws that are unconstitutional.
		The supporters of states' rights held that the national government was a league of independent states, any of which had the right to secede.
	www.kusd.edu /schools/lance/platinum/banaszynski/civil_war_2002/south_links_2002/southern_right_to_secede.html (737 words)

	EPCN News: Bound in zoning issue, man seeks to secede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dillon, an administrator at a physical therapy office, may be the only one recognizing his secession; the township sure isn't.
		In the 1960s and 1970s, several new municipalities seceded from their home townships which didn't — and still don't — sell liquor.
		In fact, there are no examples in Pennsylvania of an individual seceding, an historical fact that doesn't bode well for Dillon.
	www.epcommunitynews.com /archives/2003/bac82004.htm (756 words)

	Should the kurdish region (KRG) secede from Iraq if kirkuk is not incorporated into the KRG.
		You say that a terratory should never be seperated from a state to which it has been attached, going with this argument means that Iraq should be reattached to the Ottoman empire and ruled from Istanbul as should all other modern states in the Middle east.
		I do not understand why Iraqis insist that we kurds must remain in Iraq, all it measn is hardship for our respective peoples and now that Iraq is set to become a shia state we kurds have neither religion nor race in common with our government.
		Tell me why are you iraqi arabs so incompetant that you have to import leaders for a 'iraqi' independence movement from jordan, send zarqawi back to were he came from, do not oppose the rebirth of kurdistan and may be one day kurds and arabs can live in peace.
	www.iraq4u.com /forum/fb.asp?m=2037 (1181 words)

	PlanetPapers - Why did the South secede in 1860/61?
		It was agreed that slavery would not be allowed north of 36’30, except in Missouri, and set the precedent of free and slave state admission in pairs.
		This proved to he an ongoing theme of the sectional crisis, and some historians have claimed that this was a fundamental reason for the breakdown of North/South relations and ultimately the Civil War itself.
		The final straw for the South was the election of Abraham Lincoln who, despite his protestations to the contrary, could not convince the South that he was not a firebrand abolitionist.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3873.php (1454 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		In 1971, two years after a revolt, Anguilla was finally allowed to secede; this arrangement was formally recognized in 1980 with Anguilla becoming a separate British dependency.
		Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 and became a separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
		With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone).
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	Issues & Views: Southwest Shall Secede From U.S., Professor Predicts
		In the past, of course, wars have erupted when states seceded from either parent nation--including the U.S. Civil War to keep the South in the Union and, in Truxillo's quick description, "the Alamo and all that" when Texas declared itself independent of Mexico.
		States do have the right to secede, he maintained, if--as was untrue in the 1860s--the rest of the country is willing to let them go.
		Truxillo listed a number of international developments that he said would have seemed "far-fetched in the 1950s," including the breakup of the Soviet Union, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the apparently imminent creation of an independent West Bank Palestinian state agreed to by Israel, and ballot-box separatist movements aimed at achieving a Quebec independent of Canada.
	www.issues-views.com /index.php/sect/2006/article/2082 (654 words)

	Secede Now!
		It seems extreme, I know, but over the last few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that the best way for Americans to get some feeling of satisfaction with their government is for our nation to be split apart.
		If we are ever to move beyond the inaction resulting from our political divisions, Liberal America needs to secede from the Union, and conservative America needs to do the same.
		Their diminished size, in relation to the rest of the world, would also force each of the new American nations (even the Homeland States of America) to be more careful about beginning new military adventures.
	www.irregulartimes.com /secedenow.html (3416 words)

	Features \| Maine could secede (continued) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One Maine town, Otisfield, seceded from one county to join another.
		Since 1969, 14 communities have introduced legislation to secede from their towns and go it alone.
		When Americans think of secession, most think of the South’s failed efforts to secede from the Union, a movement that lead to the bloodiest war in US history.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /features/top/ts_multi/documents/04383233.asp (1687 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Christians look to form 'new nation' within U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Calling the approval of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts "the straw that broke the camel's back," a group of Christian activists is in the beginning stages of an effort to have one state secede from the United States to become its own sovereign nation.
		The idea of moving thousands of people to affect the voting in one state is not new.
		Last year, a group of 4,500 libertarians decided New Hampshire would be the best state.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38571 (597 words)

	U.S. Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their claim to the right of secession was understood and agreed to by the other ratifiers, including George Washington, who presided over the Constitutional Convention and was also a delegate from Virginia.
		Well into the 19th century, the United States was still viewed by many as an experimental confederation from which states could secede just as they had earlier acceded to it.
		Federal prosecutors were satisfied with the verdict that had been decided in battle.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/890304.html (260 words)

	ABC News: Iraqi Kurds Say They Don't Plan to Secede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Friends and relatives mourn over the coffin of Iraqi civil defense police officer Alaa Abdul Satta who was killed in an insurgent attack, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq.
		Meetings were to resume Wednesday among Iraqi leaders seeking to finish the draft by the new deadline midnight Aug. 22.
		Shiite lawmakers cited the role of Islam an issue that affects women's rights and self-determination for the Kurds, which Arabs fear would mean they would eventually secede from the country.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1044219 (446 words)

	The Baltic Constitutional Right to Secede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Soviet constitution does not even require a Republic to seek the consent of the national Union in order to secede.
		As we now see, a Soviet Republic may not "freely secede" unless this means free of a really big number of tanks.
		And we know that the Baltic states did not "voluntarily associate" with the Soviets but were taken in 1940 as a result of the pact between socialists Hitler and Stalin.
	www.reformed.org /webfiles/antithesis/v1n3/ant_v1n3_curr1.html (281 words)

	Killington Votes to Secede from Vermont
		Voting with a thunderous ``aye,'' residents endorsed a plan Tuesday for this ski-resort town to secede from Vermont and become a part of New Hampshire instead.
		KILLINGTON, VT March 3, 2004 (AP by Tim McCahill) - Voting with a thunderous ``aye,'' residents endorsed a plan Tuesday for this ski-resort town to secede from Vermont and become a part of New Hampshire instead.
		The overwhelming voice vote opened the next chapter in what could be a long and costly push to join New Hampshire, 25 miles to the east.
	www.skiingmag.com /skiing/news/article/0,12910,597299,00.html (350 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Secede, New England! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If New England wants to secede this time, and avoid oppression by a country that clearly does not share its values, it should be free to go.
		The League of the South is right to argue our forefathers never envisioned a union by force; the Constitution was supposed to be a voluntary compact among the states.
		For that matter, there is no reason to limit the right to secede to states.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20321 (1321 words)

	N.M. Will Secede to New Nation, Prof. Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the past, of course, wars have erupted when states seceded from either parent nation including the U.S. Civil War to keep the South in the Union and, in Truxillo's quick description, "the Alamo and all that" when Texas declared itself independent of Mexico.
		States do have the right to secede, he maintained, if as was untrue in the 1860s the rest of the country is willing to let them go.
		Several professors at the University of New Mexico and a prominent local Hispanic activist were contacted for comment on UNM Professor Charles Truxillo's concept for a new Hispanic nation called the Republic of the North.
	www.diversityalliance.org /docs/article_secede_000308.html (1834 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Maine / Sunapee looking to secede from county (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claiming their tax burden is disproportionate to the services they receive, town officials want to secede from Sullivan County and join neighboring Merrimack County.
		SUNAPEE, N.H. Claiming their tax burden is disproportionate to the services they receive, town officials want to secede from Sullivan County and join neighboring Merrimack County.
		Town Manager Donna Nashawaty said officials and their lawyer met privately Monday to discuss Sunapee's options in handling what it calls an excessive and unreasonable tax burden.
	www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2005/04/26/sunapee_looking_to_secede_from_county (630 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - Can't we just secede from the Union? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We bacame a nation by the incredible struggle of the Civil War, a struggle this cheap shot either knows nothing about (which is usually the case with democracks) or is so lost inhis party he is not worthy of a vote.
		Sometimes I want to agree and say "pack up and go", except my home state would be considered a BLUE state and they (with the exception of Unfair and Unbalanced) would not be comfortable outside of the Union.
		I was pounced on by a few of the more opiniated of the forum members and quickly became a little offensive myself, and I apologize to anyone that I may have offended as well.
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/printthread.php?t=15508&pp=40 (4964 words)

	Indian groups want their neighborhoods to secede from Mexico City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Small groups of Indians want their neighborhoods to secede from Mexico City until an unpopular Indian rights law is repealed -- even though most people in their communities aren't Indian.
		The court is expected to decide in the next few days whether to consider the motion to secede.
		The groups say if they were allowed to secede, it would put pressure on Congress to repeal the law.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/08/31/international1626EDT6578.DTL (497 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iraqi Kurds say they don't plan to secede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurdish leaders insisted Tuesday they have no plan to secede from Iraq even if they want the new constitution to give them the right to do so — one of the issues that forced a delay in finishing the draft charter.
		Meetings were to resume Wednesday among Iraqi leaders seeking to finish the draft by the new deadline — midnight Aug. 22.
		Shiite lawmakers cited the role of Islam — an issue that affects women's rights — and self-determination for the Kurds, which Arabs fear would mean they would eventually secede from the country.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-08-16-iraq_x.htm (877 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - When did Corellia secede?
		It also says that 450 years earlier, they made an illfated attempt to secede from the republic.
		Power-Within, actually the last attempt Correlia has made to secede was during the first Centerpoint crisis in the Correlian Trilogy.
		What Palpetineson is refering to is the holonetnews.com issue that states Correlia tried to secede 450 years prior to AOTC.
	boards.theforce.net /message.asp?topic=6355651 (398 words)

	Why California Must Secede at Once
		California has been Ground Zero for many of the diseases that have plagued our body politic, and it is time that Californians and their "Left Coast" fellows bear the full cost of their Jane Fonda Socialism.
		After all, I reside in South Carolina, which seceded in 1860 only to have Abraham Lincoln and his federal troops bring the folks here back into the union.
		This was not a peaceful reunion, as the federals burned down about half the towns in the state before the war ended.
	www.lewrockwell.com /anderson/anderson29.html (950 words)

	NPR : If at First You Don't Secede
		NPR looks at contemporary efforts of cities and states to secede within the United States and north of the border.
		March 1, 2004 · Tired of high property taxes, residents of the ski town of Killington vote on whether to secede from Vermont.
		Proponents of secession want their town to become part of New Hampshire, even though Killington is about 20 miles from the Granite State's border.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4682586 (276 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dorf: Does the Constitution Permit the Blue States to Secede?
		Still smarting from the results of the Presidential and Congressional elections, a number of Democrats and liberal pundits have opined that the "blue states" ought to secede from the Union.
		The military resolution of the secession question was then given legal force by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1868 case of Texas v.
		Nevertheless, the Court also said that if a secession referendum were to be adopted by the people of Quebec, the national government of Canada would incur a duty to enter into good-faith negotiations toward a secession agreement that would then be adopted by constitutional amendment.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dorf/20041124.html (2887 words)

	LA Weekly: Features: Leaving Home
		My turn toward the idea that California should secede from the Union was based on some bedrock logic that my father used to admonish me with as he suspiciously eyed my derelict teenage friends: You can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps.
		That Wednesday morning, I looked at the sea of red in between the coasts and in the South, and I listened to the hypocritical crowing by misogynists and homophobes about values and strength and "the real America" and thought: If these were my friends, I’d try to get new ones.
		Confounded by the logic of seceding, a friend recently broke down and pleaded, "But I don’t want to give away Utah." I was surprised to learn she owned it.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/05/09/features-donnelly.php (1686 words)

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