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