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• Frustration with mining tax proposal fuels Upper Peninsula secession talk in Marquette April 29, 2012 - Frustration with a proposed new business tax by the state has sparked some public talk among Upper Peninsula municipal leaders about seceding from the state of Michigan.
• Lone Star State Of Mind: Could Texas Go It Alone? March 30, 2012 - It's a popular idea in Texas that the Lone Star State — once an independent republic — could break away and go it alone. A few years ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry hinted that if Washington didn't stop meddling in his state, independence might be an option. In his brief run for the White House, he insisted that nearly anything the feds do, the states — and Texas in particular — could do better.
• Malibu Starts Ball Rolling on Secession 11/29/11 -- The Malibu City Council voted to set the gears in motion to secede from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Monday, one day before the School Board is scheduled to vote on a contentious gift policy.
• 'South California' secession backer seeks statewide summit The “California Rebellion” is on. Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone, who has proposed breaking away a major chunk of Southern California to form the new state of “South California,” on Wednesday said a statewide summit to explore the idea is penciled in for September or October.
• The Breakup of the United States - 07/26/2010.  As the dissatisfactions of Americans with their national government grow, so does the likelihood of the breakup of the United States. I believe that most Americans can improve their well-being by ending the national government, that is, ending the Union..
• A Concurring Biblical Opinion for Secession? - 04/26/2010.  Gotcha.  The right of State secession is rooted and grounded in the Word of God. Jehovah's introduction of civil government in the Old Testament is replete with examples of State secession.
• Vermont's on the Right Track: Secession, Independence Not Needed? - 02/08/2010.  Gotcha.  That's some of what I've been hearing out there, when talking to people about their concerns... if they're well off, folks are as yet unwilling to even discuss the subject of secession. They haven't been hurt yet by the general decline. 
• Secession Is In the Air - February 9, 2010.  It’s not that I have any great faith in the mass of people of this nation using logic, but it just feels as if more people are following this line of thinking these days than… than any time since, say, 1865.
• The Inalienable Right To Secede - February 1, 2010 .  Within the inalienable rights to life and liberty, as recognized in the Declaration of Independence, is the right to independence. People have a right not to be compelled to be dependent on the federal government’s monopoly of territorial protection and jurisdiction.
• The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont - February 1, 2010 .  A group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. "For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the U.S. will be front and center in a statewide New England political campaign,"
• Secession! Deep in the Heart of Texas - June 27, 2009. This Texas Nationalist movement started around the later half of the 1900 by McLaren who researched that Texas was originally a captive nation during the American Civil War 1865.
• Break Up America Secession is the Path to Freedom - June 20, 2009. Picture an America that is run not, as now, by a top-heavy Washington autocracy but, in freewheeling style, by an assemblage of largely autonomous regional republics reflecting the eclectic economic and cultural character of the society.
• A Peccancy - June 8, 2009. Ssince the state has a long history of using physical threats, not the least of which have included the threat of death in the suppression of civil liberties; there is no reason to assume the state’s innocence in the marginalization of St. Paul’s thoughts in Romans 13.
• Secession - June 8, 2009. I think one can show that any country with more than 300,000,000 people cannot possibly remain a free republic. It simply is not possible. Our nation was intended to be several states, with a federal system to oversee the protection of individual rights. It has become a single nation-state with all control coming from a central-planning leviathan. This is an untenable situation and was bound to lead to tyranny. This in and of itself is reason enough to pursue secession.
• A House Undivided Cannot Stand - June 3, 2006. The founders established a confederacy of states that were essentially thought of as independent nations. Indeed, up until the 1860s it was common for Americans to refer to their home states as "my country." The Declaration of Independence declares that the free and independent states were even to have the ability, as individual states, to wage war, which they did during the Revolution.
• A Parting of the Ways: Moving Forward to Freedom - May 16, 2009. The Constitutional Convention was a political coup held in secret behind closed doors. The delegates were sent to amend the Articles of Confederation, not abolish them. The resulting document so terrified the Anti-Federalists that they immediately pressed for the Bill of Rights to put the brakes on what they perceived to be a pernicious concentration of power in the central government.
• Secession Is in Our Future - April 28, 2009 Can states secede? There are three levels on which this question can be answered: the inalienable right of secession, the international law of secession, and, the US law of secession. All three say yes.
• A Secessionist Bookshelf: A Modest Beginning - April 28, 2009. We don’t have to be embarrassed by the notion of secession. We are a nation birthed in divorce from a tyrannical Crown and the Second American Revolution popularly known as the Civil War. Lincoln’s Jacobins won that fight but we don’t have to suffer that forever nor yield them a high ground of virtue.
• The Rush Towards Socialism – and How To Stop It - April 14, 2009. The U.S. government is now controlled by people who have been dreaming of living out their utopian socialist fantasies ever since the fantasies were brought to their attention in college decades ago by their Mao/Castro/Che Guevara poster-hanging, capitalism-hating, communistic professors.
• Is Secession 'Anti-American'? - April 18, 2009. The United States of America began with a series of thirteen secessions. The founding document of the American union is itself a collective "declaration of independence" that affirms unilateral secession to be part of our inalienable right of liberty. 
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• Guns, Gold, Secession - April 1, 2009. There is a secession movement afoot and its proponents are determined to put a halt to the federal government’s ambitions to destroy and reconstruct an entire economy and dissolve the last remnants of individual liberty.
• Secession, Sarah and the State - September 11, 2008. That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE and INDEPENDENT STATES
• Secession 101 - August 20, 2008. Secession is the reduction of a larger enclave or polity into a smaller component of the same. It is devolution of power to subsidiary levels which then become the prevailing framework for rule and law. 
• Secession: The Final Frontier - July 11, 2008. Efforts to reform the "American Empire" are futile, and that secession is the only feasible mechanism that can be used to disentangle the United States in the most peaceful and least chaotic manner possible.
• On Dissolving the United States of America - January 15, 2008. Dissolving the U.S.A. is becoming more and more an urgent and visible matter. Let us do a favor for ourselves and for our children and grandchildren. Let us place dissolving the U.S.A. at the top of our political agenda.
• Happy Secession Day 2006 - July 4, 2006. Perhaps the best evidence of how American history was rewritten, Soviet style, in the post-1865 era is the fact that most Americans seem to be unaware that "Independence Day" was originally intended to be a celebration of the colonists’ secession from the British empire.
• Secessionist Paper No. 19 What Is Secession? - November 2005. That public corporation known as the United States has simply grown too large for the purposes of self-government, in the same way that a committee of 300 people would be too large for the purposes of a committee. There needs to be a public debate on the out-of-scale character of the regime and what can be done about it.
• War and Secession - August 31, 2005. The war in question shouldn’t be called "The Civil War" because it wasn’t a civil war, but rather a war of secession, or independence.
• Left/Right Futility - July 26, 2005. A conservative or libertarian takeover of the federal Leviathan state is the silliest of pipe dreams. The only hope for restoring a free society is the devolution of power and a complete overthrow of the Lincolnite ideology of government, with all its garish monuments to itself, its "civic religion" of centralized governmental power in pursuit of world domination; its brainwashing of the public through nationalized education; its army of myth-making court historians (a.k.a., "Lincoln scholars"); and its monstrous appetite for tax revenues, which now account for almost half of all national income – especially if one counts the implicit "tax" of the costs of government regulation. The devolution of power, combined with the destruction of all the Lincolnite superstitions, is the most hopeful means of emancipating America’s tax slaves.
• EU Constitution Allows Secession - June 1, 2005. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements
• Break It Up, America! - July 13, 2004. For now, America's secessionists remain on the fringes. But if federal politicos insist on one-size-fits-all policies for a diverse population, it's only a matter of time before people in the mainstream contemplate the benefits to be had if they decide to "break it up."
• The Northern States' Rights Tradition - March 1, 2003. "States Rights, which prior to 1860 had been as important a part of northern beliefs as southern, were overturned."
• Politically Correct History - January 23, 2003. The political left in America has apparently decided that American history must be rewritten so that it can be used in the political campaign for reparations for slavery. 
• Abraham Lincoln In His Own Words - October 12, 2002. As Lincoln himself stated, as well as commentators at the time, taxation and secession were the issues, not slavery. And as many in the North realized, it was Abraham Lincoln who schemed to launch the most devastating war in American history.
• If At First You Don't Secede - August 30, 2002. One of the secrets the institutional establishment would like to keep from the rest of us is the existence of worldwide pressures to decentralize political power. While political systems seek to extend their authority through increased police and military powers (as in America) and through the creation of such supra-national political structures as the European Union or the World Trade Organization, these practices are really desperate efforts to forestall the further decline of political authority throughout the world.
• Was the Union Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? - July 29, 2002. The Union’s invasion and subsequent military occupation of the Confederacy were illegal. Today, however, the Fourteenth Amendment arguably prohibits secession by implication. Nevertheless, that Amendment, insofar as it can be interpreted to bar state secession – is tainted. It is the direct result of the illegal invasion and subsequent military domination of the South. Even the Fourteenth Amendment does not explicitly outlaw secession, and there remains a conflict between the Fourteenth Amendment and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments in this regard. This conflict should be resolved by reference to the doctrine of inalienable rights, of which secession is one.
• Secession - July 9, 2002. The law of free association is a crucially important implication of the rights of private property. For if we cannot freely associate with others on a mutually voluntary basis, our property rights are to that extent abrogated.
• Rewriting History, American Style - March 1, 2002. After Lincoln’s death and "reincarnation" as a secular political saint, politicians of all stripes began attaching themselves to his legacy. Men who were his bitterest political enemies during his lifetime all of a sudden claimed to have been his closest friends and associates. The Communist Party U.S.A. adorned its New York City headquarters, with huge portraits of Lincoln and held annual Lincoln-Lenin Day parades.
• Were the Founding Fathers Secessionist Monststers? - August 3, 2001. Anti-secessionists refuse to even recognize that the secession movement of 1775-1783 has any philosophical connections to the secession movement of 1861-1865. Both were full-blown secession movements of states or colonies who felt that they were no longer having their interests represented in the established governmental system.
• Centralization versus Decentralization: The Real Dichotomy - May 11, 2001 which side are the major voices of Libertarianism today really on? What position are they eventually going to take with the growing pro-South movement – and, for that matter, other independence movements afoot (e.g., in Hawaii where slavery can’t be raised as a red herring)? There are, indeed, people in places other than the South who are fed up with the regime based in the District of Columbia.
• In the Course of Human Events - December 20, 2001. In 1860 and early 1861 many Americans, north and south, doubted the existence of any federal power to coerce a state and considered peaceful separation a real possibility.
• That Nice Man William Tecumseh Sherman - September 12, 2001. Anything done by a commander in the field could be justified under the rubric of "military necessity." So Sherman’s men could burn and pillage (and worse) to their heart’s content, while staying within the fraudulent limitations.
• The Culture War and the Idea of Secession - November 25, 2000. The War for Southern Independence changed everything. Not only was secession never again threatened, but those pre-War threats were purged from the history books.
• The Conservatism of Secession - December 1, 2000. Unbeknownst to many, the most famous and articulate secessionists in American history are not folks with names like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but people with names like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. The original Americans were secessionists, and they did it in order to preserve their society, not to destroy it. 
• Secession and Liberty - November 28, 2000. Now that the vast majority of what the central government does is unconstitutional, there is almost no restraint at all on the extent to which the latter class can use the coercive powers of the state to plunder the former class.
• Considering Secession - November 20, 2000. How can long can we tolerate this cesspool into which we and our children have been dragged?

Secession and Soverignty By State

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