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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 ...
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). [1] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded. [2]
The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty.Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines cession as "a surrender; a giving up; a relinquishment of jurisdiction by a board in favor of another agency."
(Jan. 12, 1C, “Is Confederate Heroes Day part of slow secession for Texas?”) Why do secessionist Texans so despise our nation? This country literally fought a war over this. The South lost.
Other terms for deannexation include disannexation, secession, detachment, [2] disconnection, [3] severance [4] and exclusion. [4] Deannexation for the purpose of creating a new municipality is sometimes called division. [5] The procedures and requirements for deannexation vary greatly among the states.
Secession in New York, movements to support the secession of New York City from the state or union; Secession of Quebec (disambiguation), articles about the possible secession of Quebec from Canada; Secessionism in Western Australia, a movement for political independence; Urban secession, a movement for the quasi-secession of a city
“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 list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .