0 the act of becoming independent and no longer part of a country, area, organization, etc.: --
Norway's secession from Sweden in 1905
1 the act of leaving an organization or government, esp. the decision of a state to separate from the government of the United States: --
Dabney had opposed secession at first.
This is a lengthy study, whose strength is in the detailed narrative of secession.
Abolitionists had differed among themselves about how the founders' legacies applied to the matter of secession.
In spite of its focus on a sovereign national conference and clamour for ' true federalism ', it is confused over the issue of secession (p. 181).
If these post hoc acts of recognition have a legal valence, then the law is even more favorable to secession that these critics admit. 113.
Grounded in a unique people and imbued with moral and spiritual authority, the organic nation clearly legitimated the national state that faced secession.
An immediate consequence of secession is a change in the scope and content of the political economy of the parent nation.
Who is to say that individual welfare or freedom is enhanced by secession?
I leave aside the possibility that states will, in the end, accept a secession that does not meet these criteria.
