The Annotated Secessionist Papers: Second EditionA collection of essays, articles and papers, in the tradition of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, that discuss secession from a legal, constitutional and historical perspective. Since the original release of the first edition of The Annotated Secessionist Papers, the world has not ceased to view secession and devolution as a legitimate recourse for people across the globe that seek more responsive democratic representation. In Europe, there are currently twenty-one active and real secession or devolution movements. |
Contents
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A Brief Early History | 27 |
Secession as | 33 |
Was the Fourteenth Amendment | 40 |
Were the States | 63 |
Considering | 73 |
Taking Secession | 90 |
Secede | 101 |
for the Independent States | 106 |
Small | 118 |
Seeing Redand | 132 |
Things Fall Apart | 139 |
Happy Secession | 157 |
Final Thoughts | 183 |
Free Association | 84 |
Bibliography | 236 |
Common terms and phrases
14th Amendment Abraham Lincoln accede affirm American argument arrest Articles of Confederation authority bioregions Bledsoe Calhoun Carolina central government citizens civil covenant claim coercion colonies compact Confederacy Congress Constitution constitutionally Convention debate Declaration of Independence delegated despotism El Cid election England entity establish executive existing Federal government force form of government Fourteenth Amendment free and independent habeas corpus Hartford Convention Hobbesian issue Jefferson Jeroboam judicial jurisdiction king Kirkpatrick Sale legislation legislature liberty Liberty University Lincoln means Middlebury Institute military Morse Morse points North Northern oath original party perpetual political President principles probable cause process of law proposed ratification Rehoboam remain remedy republic Republicans revolution right of secession right to secede rule secede Secessionist Senate slavery South South Carolina Southern sovereign nations sovereignty Supreme Court suspend the writ suspicion term theory thirteen colonies U.S. Constitution unconstitutional Union United violation Virginia voted withdraw words writ of habeas