Add to ORKGThis discussion will briefly outline the legal arguments in favour of the secessionist position. The first section will survey four arguments that could, in theory, have been employed but which, in practice, were used either not at all or only marginally. The second section will survey, in greater detail, the principal argument which was advanced in 1860-61: that secession was a lawful remedy available to the Southern states in the face of material breaches of the Constitutional compact of 1787 by the free states. It will be observed that, in this argument, general considerations of natural law and of the law of nations played a central role
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Full title: The assertions of a secessionist. From the speech of A.H. Stephens, of Georgia, November...
A retrospective study of the role that secessionism played throughout American history, beginning in...
This Article argues toward the necessity to develop a new international law framework on secession. ...
Secession becomes a source of controversies again both within and outside the United States. In both...
The Soviet Constitution guarantees a right to secede. The American Constitution does not. Although ...
Fifty years have elapsed since South Carolina pretended to leave the Union. Looking over recent wr...
This chapter proceeds in three steps. I first briefly outline the principal theories that justify se...
This paper explores the development of secession as a response to federal laws in the United States....
To understand fully the relevance of the first two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to secession,...
Full title: The arguments of secessionists : a letter to the Union Meeting, held in New York, Septem...
Edited by Neil H. Cogan, who is a well-versed legal scholar of constitutional law, civil rights, and...
University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Law.In 1869, in Texas v White, the Supreme Court of the ...
This note examines first, the conditions that give rise to secession; next, the old and new normativ...
The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically...
This article explores the arguments used by southern secessionists to explain why they left the Unio...
Full title: The assertions of a secessionist. From the speech of A.H. Stephens, of Georgia, November...
A retrospective study of the role that secessionism played throughout American history, beginning in...
This Article argues toward the necessity to develop a new international law framework on secession. ...