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  secession - Encyclopedia.com
secession in political science, formal withdrawal from an association by a group discontented with the actions or decisions of that association.
Perhaps the best-known example of a secession taking place within the borders of a formerly unified nation was the withdrawal (1860-61) of the 11 Southern states from the United States to form the Confederacy.
By contrast, the secession (1971) of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) from the state of Pakistan was accomplished successfully with the help of India, the Baltic states regained independence from the USSR immediately before its dissolution, and Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 after the overthrow of the latter nation's government.
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  Secession - LoveToKnow 1911
SECESSION, a term used in political science to signify the withdrawal of a state from a confederacy or composite state, of which it had previously been a part; and the resumption of all powers formerly delegated by it to the federal government, and of its status as an independent state.
To secede is a sovereign right; secession, therefore, is based on the theory that the sovereignty of the individual states forming a confederacy or federal union has not been absorbed into a single new sovereignty.
Secession is a right claimed or exercised by weaker states of a union whose rights are threatened by the stronger states, which seldom acknowledge such a principle.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Secession   (372 words)

  
  Secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
Calls for the "secession of blue/red states" are typically used in a satirical or partisan manner.
New England Secession: Education and discussion of the possibilities of the New England states seceding from the union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secession   (1665 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Secession
secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery in western territories and over the future of slavery in the United States.
Secession had been seriously mentioned as a political option at least as far back as the Missouri crisis of 1819-21, and threats to disrupt the Union were commonplace in every sectional crisis from the nullification era (1828-33) onward.
The secession of nearby states, however, made the logic of cooperationist proposals suspect and weakened their resolve; they were far less active during the campaign than their immediate secessionist counterparts.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1085   (1136 words)

  
 Secession Watch
On secession, however, the book and the author are in the middle.
For more on the origins of secession, the book has a chapter on Valley politics.
Secession was put on the ballot by a state board, the Local Agency Formation Commission.
www.americassuburb.com /secede.html   (673 words)

  
 Vienna Secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The secession building at Vienna, built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich for exhibitions of the secession group
The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionsstil, or Sezessionsstil in Austria) was part of that highly varied movement that is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau.
Secession artists were concerned, above all else, with exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vienna_Secession   (363 words)

  
 Secession and Liberty
The important point about this episode is that this secession movement, which was based in New England, was led by some of the most distinguished men of the founding generation and was never opposed on principle by Jefferson or anyone else.
It was argued that secession might have been an unwise strategy, but no one denied that states enjoyed a right of secession.
He warmly embraced the secession of West Virginia from Virginia, for example, and was glad to permit slavery in West Virginia (and all other "border states") as long as they supported him politically.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/dilorenzo2.html   (1049 words)

  
 Urban secession Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Urban secession is a city's secession from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit (usually a state or district or province of the same country as its surroundings, but not always).
Secession is of course only one of many possible solutions, but one that is considered politically useful in Canada due to the constant threat of Quebec secession from Canada.
Secession (the setup of entirely new legislative and executive entities) is advocated by certain urban theorists, notably Jane Jacobs, as the only way to deal politically with these vast differences in culture between modern cities and even their nearest suburbs and essential watersheds.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/u/ur/urban_secession.html   (899 words)

  
 Secession
Secession is simply the repeal by the State of the act of accession to the Union; and as that act was a free, voluntary act of the State, she must always be free to repeal it.
It is by virtue of this fact that secession is rebellion against the United States, and that the General government, as representing the Union, has the right and the duty to suppress it by all the forces at its command.
Secession restores, or reduces, rather, the State to the condition it was in before its admission into the Union; but that condition is that of Territory, or a Territory subject to the United States, and not that of an independent sovereign state.
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 secession, in political science. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Perhaps the best-known example of a secession taking place within the borders of a formerly unified nation was the withdrawal (1860–61) of the 11 Southern states from the United States to form the Confederacy.
Measures such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were merely delays in resolving whether the states or the federal government was to possess sovereignty.
By contrast, the secession (1971) of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) from the state of Pakistan was accomplished successfully with the help of India, the Baltic states regained independence from the USSR immediately before its dissolution, and Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 after the overthrow of the latter nation’s government.
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 League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
First, the secessionist movement is made up of organizations of many different kinds that are alike in their advocacy of secession—of secession in general and of secession of their particular part of the planet.
A group is for secession precisely because it does not want to be part of a larger entity whose beliefs and actions it does not like, and wishes to live free on its own terms.
The beauty of secession is that it looks toward having a world where those and many other kinds of states can exist, free and independent, and not impose its ideas on others or have others’ ideas imposed on it.
www.secessionist.us /blog/labels/secession.html   (2860 words)

  
 Secession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The movement organised its own exhibitions (the association´s Secession building built by J. Olbrich was opened in 1898) and the association´s official magazine, "Ver Sacrum" (1898-1903), were meant to attract the attention of a broad international public.
The Secession and the Künstlerhaus were merged in 1939, the Secession was re-established as an independent association in 1945 and the organisation of exhibitions with international artists participating was taken up again.
It was still the aim of the Secession to promote its individual members, who formed a heterogeneous group of artists, and thus also contemporary art as a whole.
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 Secede Now!
Secession would require many Americans to move if they wanted to live in a country that valued their interests.
Instead of state-led secession of the kind that caused the civil war, we need an act of Congress which would then be ratified by the states - one final act of compromise.
Without secession, Americans of all political persuasions would continue in their anger and frustration for generations to come.
www.irregulartimes.com /secedenow.html   (3416 words)

  
 Secession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The movement organised its own exhibitions (the association´s Secession building built by J. Olbrich was opened in 1898) and the association´s official magazine, "Ver Sacrum" (1898-1903), were meant to attract the attention of a broad international public.
The Secession and the Künstlerhaus were merged in 1939, the Secession was re-established as an independent association in 1945 and the organisation of exhibitions with international artists participating was taken up again.
It was still the aim of the Secession to promote its individual members, who formed a heterogeneous group of artists, and thus also contemporary art as a whole.
www.aeiou.at /aeiou.encyclop.s/s477719.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en   (375 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Opposition to secession during the referendum campaign was concentrated in counties along the northern border of the state and in a circle of counties surrounding Austin.
In contrast, the approximately one in four counties where over 95 percent of the vote was cast for secession were strongly linked to the lower South, had no outspoken critics of secession, and had very strong Democratic party organizations that facilitated secession.
In addition to his persistent opposition to secession, the hero of San Jacinto considered the drafting of a constitution and the joining of the state to the Confederacy without extensive public debate and another public referendum to be unconstitutional.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/mgs2.html   (2388 words)

  
 E Law: Getting Out: Secession and Constitutional Law
Thirdly, secession is possible and feasible on a totally unilateral basis and legitimacy and legality may come to attach to that secession prospectively but not, for Canadian law purposes, retrospectively.
Thirdly, this Canadian recognition of secession is opposite to the Australian High Court's general tendency[24] to favour unity and nationhood (especially through the expansion and dominance of Commonwealth legislative and fiscal powers) over state powers and rights.
Thirdly, the Quebec Secession case decided that a number of aspects, for example, issues concerning the content and process of secession negotiations between provinces and the federal government, were non-justiciable.
www.murdoch.edu.au /elaw/issues/v6n1/thomson61nf.html   (3578 words)

  
 Secession - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Secession, in United States history, term applied to the withdrawal of a state from the Union.
The right of secession was usually regarded by...
Sezessionstil (German, “secession style”), term applied to work in the art nouveau idiom produced in Vienna in the last decade of the 19th century...
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 SECESSION: INTERNATIONAL LAW PERSPECTIVES
The first chapter, by Christian Tomuschat, is a valid introduction to “Secession and self–determination.” Tomuschat opens with the enlargement ratione personae of the principle of self-determination for all peoples in the international community (though, “primarily designed to foster the decolonization process”: p.23).
She concludes her contribution, unequivocally stating that, “while one might hope that international law on secession is morally progressive, a minimal realism is warranted, given States” preoccupation with internal security and regional stability” (p.350).
In conclusion, the contributors coherently instruct their intended audience that it would be erroneous to proclaim that secession violates the principle of State territorial integrity, for this term applies only in international relations.
www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/kohen0806.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Secession
And from this it follows that the secession of a people from a modern state is logically impossible, for secession would require the territorial dismemberment of a state, and that would be to deny that sovereignty is indivisible.
Secession is not revolution in the whiggish sense of the Glorious Revolution because it is not the restoration of anything within the frame of the modern state Secession is the dismemberment of a modern state in the name of self-government.
America was born in secession; secession is essential to the idea of a self-governing people; and until 1865 was widely considered an option available to an American state in all parts of the union.27 But secession short of national sovereignty is also possible.
www.mystem.org /secessio.htm   (8050 words)

  
 Stalking the Wild Taboo - Donald W. Livingston's Secession and the Modern State
And from this it follows that the secession of a people from a modern state is logically impossible, for secession would require the territorial dismemberment of a state, and that would be to deny that sovereignty is indivisible.
Secession is not revolution in the whiggish sense of the Glorious Revolution because it is not the restoration of anything within the frame of the modern state Secession is the dismemberment of a modern state in the name of self-government.
America was born in secession; secession is essential to the idea of a self-governing people; and until 1865 was widely considered an option available to an American state in all parts of the union.
www.lrainc.com /swtaboo/taboos/dwliv01.html   (8572 words)

  
 Blue states buzz over secession - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 09, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Secession, which didn't work very well when it was tried once before, is suddenly red hot in the blue states.
No one at the White House would comment on the calls for secession, but one top Republican official with ties to the Bush administration said the recent talk is not surprising, coming off an election in which the president received more than 59 million votes — the most in history.
While secession is often thought to be a Southern phenomenon, Northern leaders repeatedly threatened secession in the 19th century, in protest of such provocations as the War of 1812, as well as the admission of Louisiana and Texas to the Union.
washingtontimes.com /national/20041109-122753-5113r.htm   (778 words)

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