Secession

Secession is the voluntary assertion of a people for separation from a higher government, historically resulting from a series of grievances. It is a central idea in the classical liberal understanding of political order, as elucidated by Ludwig von Mises in Nation, State, and Economy (1919): "No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Links

 * Secession Reconsidered (pdf) by Robert W. McGee, 1994
 * The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History (pdf) by Andrei Kreptul, 2003
 * Economic Secession Won't Succeed by Gene Callahan and Paul Birch, April 2003
 * Secession Is in Our Future by Clifford F. Thies, April 2009
 * The Quotable Mises - on the subject of secession