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There is no consensus on the definition of political secession despite many political theories on the subject. [2]According to the 2017 book Secession and Security, by political scientist Ahsan Butt, states respond violently to secessionist movements if the potential state poses a greater threat than the would-be secessionist movement. [4]
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
The City of Ocoee made an attempt in April 1980 to secede from Orange County due to local distain for the county's behavior towards the city. The residents of Hastings tried seceding to form Hastings County, which was to be carven from Putnam and Saint John's Counties, in 1917 and 1922.
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
This is not the first attempt to break up the state, with at least 220 documented attempts previously, according to the California State Library.
The Confederacy recognized 13 states, but Kentucky and Missouri were southern border states while falling under varying degrees of Confederate control early in the war were represented by governments-in-exile once they were defeated; their pre-war state legislatures never voted to secede, but the Confederacy recognized pro-South provisional ...
“If we separate from that, the people in Chicago can get what they want and the people in southern Illinois can have a community that more accurately represents us.”
The first published Confederate imprint of secession, from the Charleston Mercury.. The South Carolina Declaration of Secession, formally known as the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, was a proclamation issued on December 24, 1860, by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the ...