It is said that the admission of West Virginia is secession and tolerated only because it is our secession.
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Well if we call it by that name, there is still difference enough between secession against the Constitution and secession in favor of the Constitution.
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"And yet to the historically illiterate left, a man who opposed both slavery and secession has come to symbolize both slavery and secession," he continued.
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Madrid has declared that the secession effort violates the country's constitution, and have cracked down on attempts to hold a referendum on secession on Oct. 1.
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Secession backers are now collecting voter signatures to get a measure on the 2019 state ballot which, if passed, would help clear a path for legal secession.
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Then ultimately in 1860, we saw the secession movement and the secession, that is the ultimate rejection of our Constitution, of our country, of everything it stands for.
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Many Hadrami militias would like to see Hadramawt become an independent state or autonomous region rather than part of a broader southern Yemeni state — a secession within a secession.
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In researching Free Dakota, my novel about secession, I discovered that in the early 1800s, talk of secession was more common among the New England states than among the southern states.
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" Education advocates note that not every school secession is racial or economic in nature, EdBuild for example, explains that some secession efforts are due to issues like "shifting enrollments and geography.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, a former journalist who is spearheading the secession campaign, has refused to renounce independence, citing an overwhelming vote in favor of secession at a referendum on Oct.1.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, a former journalist who is spearheading the secession campaign, has refused to renounce independence, citing an overwhelming vote in favor of secession at a referendum on Oct.1.
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In an impassioned Tweet storm, Pishevar called for California's secession.
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To be clear, school secession isn't a viral trend yet.
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The insurgents are fighting for secession from predominantly Buddhist Thailand.
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Only Israel has come out in support of Kurdish secession.
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The politics behind Catalonian secession is what makes independence impossible.
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The board of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession
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One called "Heart of Texas" agitated for that state's secession.
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None of it would go as Gardendale secession activists planned.
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But calls for secession have amplified significantly in recent months.
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Secession was not a new fever in Charleston in 1860.
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"There is no nullification, there is no secession," he said.
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Some of the president's political opponents have called for secession.
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This secession of the successful leaves the rest further mired.
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But she still allowed the secession effort to move forward.
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Some venture capitalists floated the idea of a California secession.
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A vote in favor of secession passed on Dec. 4.
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Madrid says secession is illegal under the Spain's 1978 constitution.
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Residents of Catalonia who oppose secession largely boycotted the vote.
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Some pro-government lawmakers and mainland officials have said the talk of secession shows that Hong Kong needs to pass comprehensive national security legislation that would outlaw treason, secession, subversion and other such acts.
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Although a majority of people in Catalonia are in favor of a vote on secession, a survey by the regional government from December showed 45.3 percent would support breaking away and 46.8 percent opposed secession.
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Polls on secession remain roughly where they were three years ago.
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Since 2014, support for secession has been stuck at 45 percent.
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The idea of a secession isn't a new idea in Texas.
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His team has talked wildly about "divorce" and "secession" from Kenya.
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His historical legacy is the promotion of slavery and Southern secession.
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Yet the prospect of secession from Europe undoubtedly colours the argument.
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Officials claimed the results revealed that 90% of voters backed secession.
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Trump doesn't openly worry about the secession of the Southern States.
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Meanwhile there is talk in Scotland and Northern Ireland of secession.
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Rebel leaders abroad should tone down their inflammatory talk of secession.
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Meanwhile, there is talk of secession in California, already dubbed #Calexit.
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Pro-independence farmers have turned their tractors into symbols for secession.
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This year, it decided that secession is out of fashion again.
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Some pro-secession lawmakers and mayors announced they would step down.
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Above, a supporter of secession during a protest in Barcelona yesterday.
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On the defense's side, the secession supporters filed into their seats.
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For supporters of Katanga's secession, Mr. Hammarskjold was a reviled figure.
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A South Carolina secession flag dominates the center of the room.
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We continue to view Catalonia's secession from Spain as highly unlikely.
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Madrid maintains that the Spanish Constitution prohibits secession by any region.
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Secession efforts similar to Gardendale's are going on around the country.
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Catalan officials say people voted overwhelmingly for secession in the Oct.
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For all the high-minded window dressing that often attaches to secession rules, in the end, they "have more to do with what the powerful want," said Bridget L. Coggins, a political scientist who studies secession.
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Some 48 percent of Catalans supported secession in a poll in July.
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Secession artists were engaged to design the empire's postage stamps and currency.
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Among Trump supporters, 28500 percent support Texas secession, while 6900 percent oppose.
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However, some analysts suggest the secession effort has a long shot passing.
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Catalan government treated a regional election as a plebiscite on the secession
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Kirkman correctly cites "states' rights" and "secession" together in the same sentence.
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And that, in turn, could help pressure Baghdad to consent to secession.
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In 2017, the legal fight over the secession proposal landed in court.
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The Bangsamoro law "signifies the end of war for secession," he said.
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Lincoln's election, therefore, need not have led to secession and civil war.
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Some New Englanders considered secession in response to the War of 1812.
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After 52 percent of UK voters cast ballots in favour of leaving the EU, Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was "highly likely" Scotland would hold another secession vote, and preparation for another secession vote was already underway.
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After the election, the media started covering a small secession movement in California.
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There were the posts pushing for Texas secession and playing on racial antipathy.
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Shervin Pishevar and Dave Morin are already (half-jokingly?) calling for California's secession.
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Russia also backs Serbia's refusal to recognise the secession of Kosovo in 1093.
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This was the first such call by separatists seeking Kashmir's secession from India.
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That does not mean it allows secession to ferment unabated in Hong Kong.
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The Catalan administration says about 43% of the electorate voted, 90% for secession.
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The poll predicts that pro-secession parties would win between 66-69 seats.
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The push for secession has left residents in Catalonia divided, Borrell told reporters.
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Sturgeon says this means Scotland should have another chance to vote on secession.
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Syrian Kurdish leaders say they seek autonomy as part of Syria, not secession.
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A poll in July showed 44% backing for secession and 48.3% against it.
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Despite Mr Puigdemont's claim, there is no evidence that secession commands a majority.
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Pro-secession parties want that vote to become a de facto independence referendum.
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The language of the amendment is not explicit in terms of secession, though.
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As with amicable divorce, peaceful secession is possible and would not be unprecedented.
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But they did so under the Spanish flag — demanding not secession but unity.
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The constitutional question at the heart of the civil war was about secession.
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But Catalan political parties that favor secession have accelerated their divisive, unconstitutional plans.
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Scots previously rejected secession by 55% to 45% in a referendum in 2014.
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A referendum on secession last October was ruled illegal by the Constitutional Court.
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Neza's bureaucratic secession allowed Mr. Amador to remake the force in his image.
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Across the border in Syria, Kurdish leaders say they do not want secession.
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Puigdemont has since said he might consider a solution that did not involve secession.
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Meanwhile, Buzzfeed's legal editor has investigated the possibilities of secession… prompted by Pishevar's suggestion.
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Puigdemont's government won a confidence vote in September to push ahead with secession plans.
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So, we've spent a lot of time over many months working on secession planning.
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Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, has long called for secession from Bosnia.
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There have also been reports that China is considering amending its "anti-secession" law.
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By that point, the Facebook page to organize the secession had grown mostly quiet.
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Because if secession had succeeded, imagine the precedent that would have set in Europe.
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Approximately 40 to 44% of Catalans support secession from Spain, according to The Economist.
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A former Aden governor has declared a council that seeks secession for southern Yemen.
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But the leaders clashed over Catalonia's demand to hold a binding referendum on secession.
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But only 43 percent of voters participated and opponents of secession mostly stayed home.
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For most white Northerners, secession, not slavery, became the initial reason for the war.
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A vote for Trump is not a vote for insurrection or terrorism or secession.
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Talk of secession in California proliferated as #CalExit, taking off from Britain's #Brexit campaign.
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"No international or EU law blocks the secession of a regional entity," he said.
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If Hillary Clinton had won the election, he said, he would have advocated secession.
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"There is a growing feeling of support toward the separatists and secession," she said.
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A leader of Ciudadanos, a party that opposes secession, called for new regional elections.
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By restating Catalonia's right to independence, he continued to anger the opponents of secession.
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And in local elections in May 2019, only 38.8 percent of Catalans supported secession.
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An overwhelming majority — 21960 percent — voted in favor of the region's secession from Iraq.
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Both fled to Belgium in 2017 in the wake of Catalonia's abortive secession bid.
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Both fled to Belgium in 2017 in the wake of Catalonia's abortive secession bid.
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Sanchez has made clear his firm opposition to any referendum or attempt at secession.
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The secession of South Sudan in 2011 deprived his government of vital oil revenues.
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Also: The Spanish government on the Catalan secession vote; too much information in friendship.
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That means the confrontation between Madrid and Catalonia over secession is nowhere near over.
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While support for secession has not shifted from the 45 percent that backed it in 2014, the political maelstrom unleashed by Brexit in London has angered many Scots and motivated those backing independence to target new supporters and a new vote on secession.
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"If the Gardendale Board, for permissible purposes in the future, satisfies its burden to develop a secession plan that will not impede the desegregation efforts of the Jefferson County Board, then the district court may not prohibit the secession," the federal court ruled.
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Spanish markets supported European shares after an opinion poll smoothed investors' concerns over Catalan secession.
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But some people were still unhappy that Haikala had put conditions on secession in Gardendale.
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The Senate on Friday granted the government extraordinary powers to end the Catalan secession drive.
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Secession would also hurt Catalans, which is why a majority of them probably oppose it.
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For Scottish, Catalonian or Flemish voters, such considerations may well make secession look less daunting.
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He&aposs likely to be accused of rebellion on Monday for pushing ahead with secession.
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Puigdemont and his fellow separatists claim that an illegal referendum on secession held on Oct.
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His civil war against non-Muslim black Africans ended with the secession of South Sudan.
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His coalition announced a plan of economic disruption and threatened the secession of opposition heartlands.
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And when Northerners concluded that they could not stand for secession, the Civil War began.
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A vote on secession would tear open the uneasy settlement that ended the Bosnian war.
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Such disorder, and the threat of secession in Catalonia, benefits the right elsewhere in Spain.
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And it's not just Iraqi Kurdistan's neighbors who are irked by the specter of secession.
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Once a majority of the state population favors secession, then serious action could be taken.
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Columbia's July 6 parade, marking its secession from the United States, features several mechanical horses.
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This is in contrast to these leaders' own words that tied secession directly to slavery.
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The backdrop: Border tensions between the nations stem from Eritrea's secession from Ethiopia in 1993.
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South Sudan's secession in 2011 took with it 75 percent of the country's oil reserves.
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Mr. Rajoy is opposed to secession and has so far not negotiated with Catalan separatists.
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McKibben never suggests he truly believes secession is the solution in times of political turmoil.
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The ensuing conflict was the chief instigator of Southern secession, as the secessionists themselves proclaimed.
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When the effort collapsed, Tyler embraced secession and was later elected to the Confederate Congress.
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Ethiopia, landlocked since the secession, has a strategic interest in a critical Eritrean port, Assab.
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Partisan writing you shouldn't miss, about James Comey's testimony, infrastructure spending, Californian secession and more.
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The Nigerian government at the time opposed secession, which ensued after failed talks on reconciliation.
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Even when you don't take your child's secession from your union personally, it still hurts.
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They fled to Belgium in 2017 in the wake of Catalonia's failed bid for secession.
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An opinion poll in July showed 48.3% of Catalans against secession and 44.0% in favor.
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When a similar poll was conducted in 2014, about 20 percent of Californians supported secession.
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Southern secession meant, among other things, that the region was no longer represented in Congress.
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Trump is supposedly the gravest threat to American democracy since the secession of the Confederacy.
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Lawmakers in our home state, North Carolina, want to overturn a constitutional ban on secession.
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The secession crisis of 20133 was, Whittington argues, both an operational and a fidelity crisis.
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Any idea of secession is bitterly opposed by the governments in Baghdad, Turkey and Iran.
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As written in its articles of secession ("A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union"): Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world.
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"There's no legal path to secession," Cynthia Nicoletti, an associate professor of law at University of Virginia School of Law and author of the upcoming book, "The Treason Trial of Jefferson Davis: Secession in the Aftermath of the Civil War," told Business Insider last year.
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But only 43 percent of the electorate participated, with most opponents of secession staying at home.
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There, however, it is intermingled with demands for greater democracy or even outright secession from China.
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Plus, leaning more into federalism could further fragment national political unity and hasten a secession crisis.
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Within minutes of Thursday's developments, several pro-secession lawmakers and mayors announced they were stepping down.
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Many Spaniards worry that its secession could swiftly be followed by that of the Basque country.
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Both administrations are dominated by the Northern League, which once advocated secession for the richer north.
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Expecting it to boost support for independence, she has called for a second plebiscite on secession.
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Still, Catalan parties that oppose secession and the appointment of Mr. Puigdemont criticized the leadership agreement.
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Opponents of the move could merely search the Facebook page where Gardendale residents organized the secession.
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The election of Abraham Lincoln triggered the South to follow through on their threats of secession.
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Thieves stole half a dozen gilded leaves from the dome of the Secession Building in Vienna.
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But the probability of any kind of modern-day state secession actually happening is incredibly low.
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Activision and Infinity Ward: the unified and benevolent superpower, maintaining order in the face of secession.
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Secession may be a good thing, but the political establishment is not ready to permit it.
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Catalonia's government declared independence Friday, following a symbolic referendum on secession from Spain on October 1.
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This summer Texas Boys State voted with full enthusiasm for Texas secession by an astonishing margin.
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Brexit has given a nudge to modest pre-existing secession movements in New England, as well.
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Ethnic autonomy could lead to secession of Xinjiang and Tibet — a de facto disintegration of China.
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Another 22014% quit because of an illness, and 22013% withdrew after secession during the Civil War.
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Syriza gambled on a threat of Greek secession when Greece already faced the risk of expulsion.
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When that aristocracy threw its support behind secession in defense of slavery, Johnson loudly, proudly dissented.
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This process of breaking off is known as secession, and school secessions have become fairly common.
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The Legal Defense Fund has appealed (as has Gardendale, which is still fighting for full secession).
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In 2017, Catalan leaders defied courts and conducted a referendum on secession and then declared independence.
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It certainly seems more reasonable than embracing secession because you might lose some online tuition funds.
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Lamar drafted the state's orders of secession, funded his own Confederate regiment and held 31 slaves.
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In Catalan regional elections in 2628, 28503 percent voted in favor of candidates who supported secession.
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Catalans, for instance, have built their movement around the high-minded ideals that supposedly guide secession.
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Mr. Fenna dismissed the idea that the secession effort was had much support from everyday people.
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Any use of explosives by supporters of Catalan secession would mark a sharp change in tactics.
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Spain has been destabilized by a secession movement led by some of its own regional institutions.
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Rajoy hoped to stop the secession movement from barreling forward and protect his country's fragile democracy.
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But other parties' sharing his opposition to Catalonia's secession suggests that his position is not in danger.
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Even though the threat of secession has faded, the barriers to new parties have continued to rise.
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All are wanted by Madrid for actions related to the push for the region's secession from Spain.
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Trump takes the lead with voters who favor secession, however, grabbing 72 percent to Clinton's 20 percent.
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The Hurriyat is an umbrella group of political and religious groups fighting for Kashmir's secession from India.
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Even politicians vehemently opposed to secession say the application of Article 155 measures will have negative consequences.
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Baghdad has repeatedly insisted September's vote, in which people decisively backed secession, was both illegitimate and illegal.
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Neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria all oppose secession, fearing separatism will spread to their own Kurdish populations.
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Years ago, I started work on a seriocomic novel about the secession of my home state, Vermont.
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Interest in secession got a boost in California this month after the victory of Donald J. Trump.
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The border between the two countries, which have had tense relations since South Sudan's secession, remains disputed.
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The stakes: Secession "is not a political scenario that the central Chinese government can afford," Sun says.
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Had President Buchanan taken more forceful action to stop southern secession, history would remember him more kindly.
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It was absurd and unpatriotic when Texans talked of secession rather than be led by Barack Obama.
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Still, however much the issue has faded from the debate, secession is supported by a vocal minority.
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Kosovo unilaterally declared secession in 2008 from Serbia, which went to court to try and stop it.
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But they struggled to offer a clear path toward secession after last year's failed declaration of independence.
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And she had no idea what Gardendale's secession supporters had planned for the children from her community.
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Still, RCR's partners made clear they wanted to distance their architecture from the politics of Catalan secession.
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That doesn't mean Liberal Party lawmakers are then bound to vote in support of any secession legislation.
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Mr. Trump's victory and the subsequent boom in interest in the push for secession caught him unprepared.
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Moreover, it looks like a possible prelude to Kurdish secession, taking all the Kirkuk oil with them.
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In both 2009 and 2010, Moore's Foundation for Moral Law hosted pro-Confederate Alabama "Secession Day" celebrations.
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Money and diplomatic ties are one explanation for the tendency towards institutional reticence around the secession issue.
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The preeminent artist of the Vienna Secession, like many Modernists, he took up affairs with his models.
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The lawyers for the black children of Jefferson County laid out a chronology that showed that when Gardendale secession advocates started working on secession, they assumed that breaking off would allow them to exclude from their schools all black children from outside Gardendale, including the children in North Smithfield.
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White, the 1869 ruling laying out the path to secession, any state leaving the Union is extremely unlikely.
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Elections later returned a regional government favoring secession though a party supporting union with Spain won most votes.
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Interest in pushing for California's secession from the United States has increased after Donald Trump won the presidency.
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Less than a hundred years later, some Southerners maintained secession was legally justified by the Declaration of Independence.
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Last year's show on Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession attracted nearly 400,000 visitors, according to the museum.
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Miller told CNN that he plans to continue his fight for secession -- that this is just the beginning.
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Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has vowed to prevent secession and halted international flights into Kurdish cities.
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But the EU has no provision for dealing with a region's secession in defiance of a member country.
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Calexit, a secession proposal by the Yes California group, would keep the state whole—as an independent country.
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It was not a move towards secession, said the PYD, but a model for the rest of Syria.
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Would he have been willing to sign his own economic, political, and cultural death warrant by opposing secession?
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Seen by many as a fringe effort, interest in California's secession increased after Donald Trump won the presidency.
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Voters chose overwhelmingly to become independent, though turnout was low with those against secession largely boycotting the vote.
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Both the partition of India in 1947 and the secession of Bangladesh in 1971 produced more refugees. Sorry.
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That instability, combined with the threat of Catalan secession, has provided the perfect culture for Vox to thrive.
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Last year, Russia and Venezuela joined forces to create fake social media accounts supporting Catalonia's secession from Spain.
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You know, I once wrote a book about Texas in which I pooh-poohed the whole secession thing.
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Within three months of Kosovo's secession from Serbia, the Football Federation of Kosovo applied for membership of FIFA.
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Secession attempts are cropping up around the world, but financial markets appear to be shrugging off the risk.
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Quebec's secession is supported by about 30 percent of Quebecers, and he focused instead on safeguarding Quebec's identity.
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Dahl-Wolfe took up photography after meeting Anne W. Brigman, an early member of the Photo-Secession group.
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While he remains a supporter of an secession he has advocated a negotiated solution with the central government.
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The proposed legislation would have outlawed "acts" of treason, secession, sedition or subversion against the Central People's Government.
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The secession drive — these days some might try calling it Stexit — ended up dying in the State Assembly.
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Since both Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone opposed secession, the vote never occurred.
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Catalonia's renewed push for secession has opened one of Spain's deepest political and institutional crises of recent years.
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Virginia's secession drew intense opposition in the state's northwestern counties, where many residents remained loyal to the Union.
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In the evening, protesters gathered in many cities for demonstrations that intend to reignite the movement for secession.
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He is accused of threatening the integrity of the nation by demanding secession of the English-speaking region.
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The report notes that the number of school secession efforts have increased, especially in the past two years.
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Another high-profile example of school secession occurred in Gardendale, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb that is predominantly white.
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However, in 2018, an appeals court reversed the decision, saying that Haikala should not have allowed the secession.
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The Socialists, who oppose both independence and the push to hold a referendum on secession, announced on Nov.
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Puigdemont said 90 percent of voters in the referendum backed secession, but turn-out was only 43 percent.
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The rise of Vox, and the Catalan secession crisis, has drawn more customers to his pub, he reckoned.
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Not even the drama over the threat of secession from the wealthy region of Catalonia has derailed growth.
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Residents of the Lone Star State passed resolutions calling for a vote on secession recent as March 2016.
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Crucially for her charm offensive in a city that rebuffed Scots' appeals for assurances of EU membership during their 2014 independence referendum - a reflection of fears of secession in other EU states such as Spain - Sturgeon kept the secession card firmly off the table, insisting that was not the priority.
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Sibilia points out that some of these secession efforts are logical, like the one in California's San Fernando Valley.
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" Cleveland defended the bill to the News & Observer, saying the secession restriction "was stuck in our constitution during Reconstruction.
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Hamilton was fighting this secession effort right up until the day he was shot by Aaron Burr in 1804.
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The secession of South Sudan also hit Khartoum's economy hard, taking with it most of the region's oil reserves.
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That compares with about 20 percent support, or one-in-five Californians, who backed the secession idea in 2014.
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Strikers advocating for Catalonia's secession from Spain are blocking major highways, train lines, and roads across the northeastern region.
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Scots rejected secession by 20143 points in a 2014 referendum and polls show most still do not support it.
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"[It has] a giant map centered behind the whole of the counter: "Secession 1860-1861"," one Yelp user wrote.
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Encouragingly, the ethnic armies reassured the government that they wanted not secession, but more freedom within a federal state.
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What they're asking for is so-called "real self-determination" but in effect it amounts to secession (from China).
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The Catalans are being sought for different crimes, including rebellion, sedition and embezzlement for pushing for secession for Catalonia.
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Breaking up the union would be a constitutional nightmare���if only because no process for secession is laid down.
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Merche, 55, who voted for secession in the referendum, said she was tired of the political to-and-fro.
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Secession moves by this wealthy northeastern region of 7.5 million have tipped Spain into its deepest crisis in decades.
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Catalan leaders said the result showed its people wanted to leave Spain and it would push ahead with secession.
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Commercially minded eastern regions of Bolivia flirted with secession during their political battle with Evo Morales, the socialist president.
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Reliant on oil, Bashir's government was ill-prepared for the economic shock of southern secession and struggled to respond.
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German and Dutch government representatives spoke against it in the 105-member Convention, arguing it would only encourage secession.
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And Russian interference may have been behind Facebook pages supporting secession movements in California, Texas, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
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The declarations of secession made by Southern states on the eve of the war cited slavery as the cause.
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Perhaps because secession is a dirty word with ugly associations, the foundation prefers to speak in terms of independence.
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Scots rejected secession by 10 points in a 2014 referendum and polls show most still do not support it.
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Yet Spain's constitution does not allow any move towards secession, nor are there plans for a referendum on it.
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The second is the secession-minded region of Catalonia, where the Socialists refuse to back a referendum on independence.
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In 2018, all eyes are on Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who remains stalwart on his anti-secession stance.
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It called for rallies across Texas on November 5th -- three days before the Presidential election - in support of secession.
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Independence is highly divisive in Catalonia, with an opinion poll in July showing 44% backing secession and 48.3% opposed.
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However, lawmakers have agreed ahead of the forthcoming ballots that Sunday's vote is about fiscal autonomy and not secession.
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Street protests and rallies happen almost daily, and there are growing calls for secession in parts of the country.
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It is just that the alternative—the abrupt, possibly extra-legal secession of the unhappy region—often looks worse.
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From 400 to 200 BC, Roman laborers halted the entire economy for days during the Secession of the Plebs.
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A statue of John C. Calhoun, a staunch defender of slavery and secession, still stands in a city square.
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The charges he faces over the organizing of an illegal secession referendum could lead to 25 years behind bars.
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California has faced its own secession movement in recent years by a group of conservatives in several rural counties.
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He stressed on Wednesday that he would tell pro-secession parties from Catalonia that he opposed their independence drive.
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Catalonia's secession referendum and consequent declaration of independence in October has fueled a political crisis between Madrid and Barcelona.
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Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has rejected any dialogue with the separatists unless they abandon plans for secession.
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Polls and recent elections show that the region's 7.5 million residents are roughly equally divided by the secession question.
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He made a political comeback in 2017 as one of the most outspoken opponents of Catalan secession from Spain.
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On the first question, Johnson held the eccentric view that since secession wasn't constitutional, it had, essentially, never happened.
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Two years after the high school opened its doors, Gardendale activists made their move, starting a campaign for secession.
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Then came Fort Sumter and the federal call to fight the secessionists, and secession carried the day at last.
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I acknowledge that Lee was a reluctant champion of secession, and historians still disagree about Lee's thoughts on slavery.
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Virginia officials have thrown cold water on the proposals, saying it's not logistically clear how secession would be achieved.
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Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, a Democrat from suburban Fairfax County, called secession "preposterous," according to the Richmond Times.
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The federal government, whose power was increased, provided the states with funds — which created a financial deterrent against secession.
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That riddle has bedeviled American history, from debates over Southern secession to calls to abolish the Electoral College today.
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The charges relate to their alleged role in organizing a 2017 referendum on secession and subsequent declaration of independence.
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The ruling followed a legal challenge by the Catalan Socialist Party, which opposes secession, according to El Pais newspaper.
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The trial in Madrid is likely to revive debates and stir emotions over Catalonia's botched secession attempt in 2017.
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Catalonia has its own language and culture and a political movement for secession that has strengthened in recent years.
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Remember that in the most recent poll, nearly 50 percent of the region's residents indicated they were against secession.
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Two-thirds of those of those secession attempts have been successful, and most of the other cases are still ongoing.
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But they were left inside Sudan when that agreement paved the way to the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
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Iraq's neighbors Turkey, Iran and Syria, all oppose secession, fearing that separatism will spread to their own ethnic Kurdish populations.
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There was, for example, a page called Heart of Texas, which pushed for the secession of the Lone Star State.
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But, facing a secession crisis that led to the Civil War, Congress was too busy to take up the matter.
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"Barqa" is a term for the east often used by activists demanding secession or at least autonomy from the west.
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Another two leaders of pro-secession grassroots groups are also in jail while an investigation continues into suspicion of sedition.
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With school district secession, it isn't about moving to another place to get a district boundary between you and others.
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They have urged the U.N. to include the issue of the south's possible secession from Yemen in the peace talks.
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Still, some are holding on to hope and Marcinelli isn't fazed by the doubters who say secession just couldn't happen.
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The ONLF launched its bid for secession of the Somali Region, also known as Ogaden, in eastern Ethiopia in 1984.
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To be clear, we're not talking about New York City independence, or secession or any other crazy idea like that.
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The first secession since Greenland quit the European Economic Community in 1985 might do even broader damage, by some reckonings.
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Moore's association with the "Secession Day" event first came under scrutiny during his failed 2010 campaign to be Alabama's governor.
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Some Southern states still commemorate those who died fighting for secession from the United States over slavery and states' rights.
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California's secession movement will get a second try as the state's "war" against the Trump administration rages on several fronts.
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But recent surveys have shown enthusiasm for secession dipping and that fewer than half of Catalans actually support breaking away.
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In the underlying theme of separation—Daphne's severance from her husband, the Northern attempt at secession—America is at fault.
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Most constitutional scholars interpret the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War, as prohibiting secession.
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Pro-separatist Catalan parties were going ahead this week with legal preparations for a disputed referendum on secession in October.
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Spanish markets supported European shares after an opinion poll showing waning support for independence soothed investors' concerns over Catalan secession.
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Worse than Millard Fillmore, who backed the protection of Southern slavery in the Compromise of 1850, which delayed Southern secession?
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The decades-long quest for secession turned violent about a year ago, after government soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters.
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Last October, the Socialists also backed Mr. Rajoy when he imposed rule from Madrid on Catalonia to stop unilateral secession.
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The first van Gogh exhibitions were mounted in 1901 in the Berlin Secession and at the Kunstsalon of Paul Cassirer.
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The psychologist Lisa Damour writes: Even when you don't take your child's secession from your union personally, it still hurts.
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This helps get around the fact that there is no legal right, under international or often domestic law, for secession.
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Junqueras was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Octoberover his role in Catalonia's failed bid for secession in 2017.
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Under current constitutional arrangements, any legally binding vote on secession would have to be sanctioned by Britain's parliament at Westminster.
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While the Gardendale plan was ultimately halted, other school secessions have been allowed to occur, the secession study authors note.
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Scots voted to stay inside the United Kingdom, but had it gone the other way, London would have allowed secession.
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They then fraudulently approved a transitory constitution and an act calling for an illegal plebiscite on a plan for secession.
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The protests developed into a full-blown secession battle that has put the nation on the edge of civil war.
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If secession were recognized it would lead to Catalonia's automatic exit from the European Union, a French junior minister said.
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Regional authorities say about 90 percent of votes in the referendum were for secession, but turnout was only 43 percent.
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This politicking led to coups, the attempted secession of what was then known as the Eastern Region and a civil war.
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A campaign for secession in Vermont called the Second Vermont Republic lost steam when its founder Thomas Naylor died in 2012.
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We're seeing a secession movement now in California, which, according to the polls, is backed by a third of the population.
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Catalonia remained part of Spain but the secession attempt unfolded the worst crisis in more than four decades of Spanish democracy.
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The SNP's best bet, as it meets for conference in Edinburgh this weekend, is to drive up public support for secession.
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The secession crisis of 1860 that culminated in the Civil War was, Whittington argues, both an operational and a fidelity crisis.
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"When I hear a Redoubt talk, I get uncomfortable because I hear words like 'secession' and 'survival,'" Hazel later told me.
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Although the Bloc Québécois, led by Yves-François Blanchet, favours secession it did not make that a centrepiece of its campaign.
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Pro-independence supporters wave flags during a rally in support for the secession of the Catalonia region from Spain on Sept.
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The analogy I use with my clients is to consider how Texas voted secession from the United States between 1836-1845.
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The motion was approved by the votes of pro-independence lawmakers, with 70 out of 135 votes in favor of secession.
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Only 43 percent of voters participated but those who did voted overwhelmingly to secede, while opponents of secession mostly stayed home.
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As the deadline for Britain's secession from the European Union approaches, the spectre of a hard Brexit has some airlines scrambling.
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He fled Nigeria last year fearing arrest for backing the secession of an area in the southeast formerly known as Biafra.
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The examples of the secession of South Sudan and Eritrea raise serious questions and doubts about the outcomes of breakaway states.
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A violent secession movement that started in the late 1980s saw many guerrilla fighters crossing the border from Pakistan into India.
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Secession is exactly what an offshoot of the Free State Project, called the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, has in mind.
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Some 29 percent of those surveyed said that Catalonia's push for secession was Spain's largest problem in a poll taken Oct.
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However any binding vote on Scottish secession must take place via a so-called Section 30 order granted by Britain's parliament.
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It's not clear whether a California secession would be handled by the federal government, even if the state's voters approved it.
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The idea of a plebiscite is supported by a majority in the region, polls show, even by some who oppose secession.
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In 2010, Charleston, South Carolina held a "secession ball" in period dress, celebrating the creation of a white supremacist rebel state.
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Both Turkey and Iran have sizeable Kurdish minorities and fear that secession in Iraq might galvanize nationalist movements in their countries.
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Since 2015 the region's ruling coalition has been bent on secession, a possibility not recognised by the Spanish constitution of 1978.
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During the first secession in 494 BC, plebeians walked off the job to protest a law that would increase their debt.
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After Mr. Trump clinched his victory late Tuesday, at least three tech investors signaled a willingness to finance a secession effort.
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They are linked via a weak central government whose decisions are usually disputed by the Serb region, which often threatens secession.
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No one debates the validity of the Catalan Parliament, and the long-missing debate of secession on its merits will occur.
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The idea of secession and states' rights and two Americas is something we will very much be telling the stories of.
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But only 43 percent of the electorate and 1 in 3 Catalans participated, with most opponents of secession staying at home.
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The Northern League supports the secession of northern regions and the formation of an independent country they refer to as Padania.
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That legislation — against sedition, subversion, secession and treason — would have allowed the authorities to conduct warrantless searches and shut down newspapers.
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A violent secession movement arose in Kashmir in the late 1980s, as thousands of militants spilled over the border from Pakistan.
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But tension deteriorated into full blown crisis last year after protests in Anglophone regions turned violent, with some calling for secession.
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Ralph Northam's office is dismissing the secession effort as a political stunt aimed at raising Justice's profile in a reelection year.
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Junqueras was sentenced to 13 years in prison in October over his role in Catalonia's failed bid for secession in 2017.
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NEW YORK — Staten Island — the only city borough to vote for Donald Trump in the 28 election — is talking secession again.
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A state can pass a constitutional amendment that legalizes secession with a vote from three-fourths of the other 49 states.
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By 1903 Alfred Stieglitz published Brigman's work in the important periodical Camera Work and awarded her membership to the Photo-Secession.
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If a peace deal is agreed to but the issue of southern secession is not addressed — it was not on the agenda in Kuwait — the end of the civil war in the north could lead into yet another civil war over secession that envelops the entire country, pitting forces backed by two regional U.S. allies against each other.
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Political outrage, massive protests and secession movements will continue to grow worldwide, eventually at a pace that makes California wildfires seem leisurely.
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Results showed voters had overwhelmingly backed independence in the referendum, which Spain has ruled illegal and which opponents of secession mostly boycotted.
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Polls before Sunday's vote put support for secession at only around 40 percent, but most opponents were expected to boycott the vote.
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In the previous school secession cases, the judge didn't go as far as to find racial motives, or even dig very far.
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However, recent polls suggest the region of 7.5 million people is roughly evenly split on secession and some Catalans strongly oppose independence.
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Catalonia, Spain's richest region, has its own language and culture and a political movement for secession that has strengthened in recent years.
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This refers to a clause in Hong Kong's constitution that requires the territory to pass laws against treason, secession, sedition and subversion.
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The Generalitat says 43% of the electorate voted in the unauthorised referendum on October 1st, 90% of them in support of secession.
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Indeed the success of the EU may actually have stoked rather than quelled the flames of secession, by potentially reducing its costs.
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In his quest for Scottish secession, there's no end to the hands he'd shake on the campaign trail, the babies he'd kiss.
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Results showed Catalan voters overwhelmingly backed independence in the referendum, which Spain has ruled illegal and which opponents of secession mostly boycotted.
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The most frequently heard argument against secession is that granting the right to one country invites others to take the same step.
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There is also a case to be made that granting secession has merely served to fuel the claims of other separatist movements.
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The push for secession has picked up in the past five years, as many in the nation want more autonomy from Spain.
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But school secession is one of the more brazen examples of affluent communities using their political clout to fence out everyone else.
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But, even among enthusiasts, there has not been much thought devoted to imagining what exactly a post-secession California would look like.
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Most American secession movements have been group efforts, from the Confederacy's wave of departures to New England's Hartford Convention flirtation with Yankeexit.
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Opponents of secession say a majority of Catalans want to remain part of Spain and did not take part in the referendum.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the column criticized here Western efforts to export democracy, saying it had simply led to instability, conflict, communalism and secession.
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The ruling Scottish National Party has warned that another secession vote has to be an option if its views are not respected.
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She has been indicating for months that she would provide clarity on the secession issue once the outcome of Brexit was clear.
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After unification, southerners complained that they were being marginalized by the country's northern leaders, leading to a movement calling openly for secession.
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Barred from participating in politics, enslaved African-Americans could not register their opinions about secession, let alone slavery, at the ballot box.
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On Monday, the California Secretary of State's Office announced that a secession ballot proposal has been cleared to begin gathering needed signatures.
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Gary Gerstle, a professor at the University of Cambridge, in a toast, jokingly proposed a theme for the group's next gathering: secession.
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That was in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln's election prompted the secession of Southern states that refused to tolerate his opposition to slavery.
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At the turn of the century, Teddy Roosevelt helped orchestrate Panama's secession from Colombia to secure US control over the Panama Canal.
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Government marginalization of other ethnic groups prompted an exodus of professionals from the nation and secession cries from the Oromo at home.
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This melancholy is captured in the artist Alex Da Corte's new film "Slow Graffiti," which premiered at Secession in Vienna this summer.
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Altogether, the Spanish Supreme Court is seeking to try 25 Catalan separatist leaders for violating Spain's Constitution during their unsuccessful secession attempt.
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"I see it kind of as like a secession," said Angela Walch, an associate professor at St. Mary's University School of Law.
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Until the secession, oil revenues consisted of more than half of Sudan's revenues, Mr. Soliman said, and about 90 percent of exports.
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Books of The Times Peculiar, impractical and illegal though it may be, secession has its enthusiasts in a surprising number of states.
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Spain's Constitutional Court suspended a session of the Catalan parliament scheduled for Monday in which local leaders were expected to declare secession.
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The Legal Defense Fund also argued that it was racism, not the desire for local control, that was behind the secession effort.
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In 1994, when Staten Island was mulling secession from New York City, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver played Lincoln and preserved the Union.
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Kurdish secession would also deprive the United States of one of its primary goals since it invaded this country: keeping Iraq intact.
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Honor, the history of secession agitation and the memory of the failed Vesey slave rebellion of 1822 also figured into the equation.
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In Lincoln's mind, Kesavan and Paulsen wrote, secession from the Union was wrong, and seceding from a seceding state cured the error.
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Lengthy prison terms for nine separatists who led a secession attempt in 2017 have fueled protests across the region before national elections.
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The current building was erected in 1891, on Calhoun Street, named for Vice-President John C. Calhoun, the intellectual progenitor of secession.
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The seeds of injustice sowed by the Republican Party, our first king's party, culminated in the secession of East Pakistan in 1971.
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"For someone like me, who's policy driven, the bombast about secession masks the reality of electoral politics in Staten Island," he said.
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The United Liberation Front of Assam has been fighting for secession from India and many of its members are based in Bangladesh.
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Strongly opposed to Catalonian secession, the central government in Madrid had earlier lodged an appeal against the referendum at the constitutional court.
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It helped, to be sure, that the Democrats spent those decades living down their shameful support of slavery, secession and Jim Crow.
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Bradley created the legal framework that allows school secession to occur, Sibilia says it's the structure of school funding that creates the incentive.
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Opinion polls show that the region is split roughly in half between those who support secession and those favoring remaining part of Spain.
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Spain sacked the Catalan regional government led by Puigdemont after a declaration of independence that followed a banned secession referendum on Oct. 1.
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In Aden, 480 km (300 miles) to the west of Mukalla, divisions have already started to mount between Hadi and pro-secession troops.
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Sudan, its economy shaken by the 2011 secession of the south, finds itself in confrontation with a neighbour far wealthier and more powerful.
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By the time that war fully ended with the south's internationally brokered secession in 2011, more than 2 million people had been killed.
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They were especially proud of their government: The Union that had crushed secession might genuinely improve Americans' lives, in the South and elsewhere.
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He explains why secession would be good for the state's economy and how he'll get the rest of the nation to buy in.
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But the economy—already struggling following the secession of South Sudan, which took away 19853% of Sudan's oil reserves, in 2011—has nosedived.
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Lincoln knew that to tolerate secession spelled the end of the United States—"the last best hope on earth," as he called it.
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He promised to restore Catalonia's autonomy regardless of the election result, but could re-impose it if a new government again pursued secession.
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The Bosnian Serb leadership favors closer ties with Russia and has threatened the secession of their autonomous republic, and questions Bosnia's EU bid.
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When Lincoln refused to accept southern secession, the result was the Civil War—still the nation's deadliest conflict in terms of total casualties.
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Pro-Russian sentiments – ranging from recognition of the official status of the Russian language to outright secession – had always been prevalent in Crimea.
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Their frustration has swelled into support for perhaps the ultimate solution to the Golden State's strong distaste for president-elect Donald Trump—secession.
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Though it's lingered in the air for some time, serious talk of a California secession has ramped up after the 2016 US election.
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So close was Keckley to the Davis family, that when they left to go South after secession, Varina implored Elizabeth to join them.
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Founded in 1991 by Umberto Bossi, the League once campaigned vociferously for northern secession and used to denounce Italy's capital as "thieving Rome".
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In the war of secession, probably hundreds of thousands died in the former East Pakistan, the Bengali half of a geographically divided country.
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Such an outcome could lead to civil unrest, which China's Anti-Secession Law lists as one of the conditions justifying Chinese military action.
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Spanish markets have experienced bouts of volatility since Catalonia voted for secession on Oct 252.57 in a referendum declared illegal by Spanish courts.
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She has taken a guarded stance on independence, in favor of allowing citizens to have a say but without publicly supporting secession herself.
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" What's more, Grossman added, the declarations of secession made clear that states were "seceding from the union to preserve the institution of slavery.
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According to records from Virginia's Department of Elections, the event in which he praised secession was paid for by avowed secessionist George Randall.
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Spain's government warned it would take steps, including dissolving the Catalan parliament or petitioning the courts to rule that a secession is unconstitutional.
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Only about 40 percent of the Catalan electorate took part, after Madrid advised those who opposed secession to stay away from polling stations.
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More than 90 percent of those who voted backed secession, but opinion polls on the issue suggest the region is more closely divided.
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The secession of South Sudan also took a heavy toll on the economy of Sudan, which lost most of the region's oil reserves.
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The secession of the southern Congolese province of Katanga illuminated the competition among rival superpowers and commercial interests for influence over Africa's future.
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Southern secession was inextricably tied to upholding slavery, and postwar Confederate imagery surged in negative response to the 20th century's civil rights movement.
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The extreme became mainstream, as Republican leaders subtly or overtly embraced anti-Obama conspiracy theories about civil unrest, martial law and Texas secession.
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" Gardendale's secession movement, the court alleged, began only when its schools became "racially diverse while the population of the City remained overwhelmingly white.
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The city is under attack, invaded not by a foreign or extraterrestrial army but by forces of secession from the southern United States.
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China passed an anti-secession law in 2005 which authorizes the use of force against Taiwan if China judges it to have seceded.
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That declaration followed a referendum on secession, deemed constitutionally illegal by the courts and to which central government responded by sending riot police.
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At a European summit last week, leaders sought to minimise Spain's crisis with Catalonia and described the secession bid as a domestic issue.
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The California secession movement has been given the go-ahead to gather signatures for its effort after the ballot proposal was approved Monday.
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The Southern Transitional Council, a United Arab Emirates-backed organization of provincial leaders advocating the south's secession, had scheduled a rally for Oct.
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The Sudanese economy had already been struggling with the loss of 75 percent of its oil revenues with the secession of South Sudan.
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They say it will cause regional chaos, and they also fear secession will encourage their own restive Kurdish populations to press for self-determination.
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However, Spain is one of the euro zone's fastest-growing economies and investor sentiment has bounced back after the Catalan secession drive knocked confidence.
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Spain has refused to allow an official referendum on secession by the Catalonia region, whose leaders tried and failed to declare independence last year.
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In Scotland, Conservatives spent years in the wilderness until Scottish leader Ruth Davidson focused on defending Britain against secession and the Labour Party collapsed.
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The activists pleaded not guilty in February to charges that included complicity in hostility against the homeland, secession, civil war, and campaigning for federalism.
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The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) launched its bid for secession of the Somali Region, also known as Ogaden, in eastern Ethiopia in 1984.
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The impoverished country, consisting of three Indian Ocean islands and 800,000 people, has also weathered secession attempts in its turbulent 43 years since independence.
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His appointment signals that the new government will uphold the constitution (which bars secession) and will be more active in making that case abroad.
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Iran wants to make sure that thoughts of secession do not spread to the Kurds and other minorities who live within its own territory.
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These arguably do apply to the Kurds, who are planning to hold a disputed referendum on secession from Iraq on September 25th (see article).
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A Western diplomat told Reuters that secession for the region, which has a third of Bosnia's population of 3.5 million, remained a "red line".
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However, an appeals court said Haikala should not have allowed the secession to move forward, since the lines were being drawn with discriminatory intent.
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In 2011, South Sudan was established as an independent state after a referendum in which 99% of the population voted in favor of secession.
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"I'm extremely sceptical that this will open the way to secession," says James Ker-Lindsay, a Balkans specialist at the London School of Economics.
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Spain's centre-right Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has repeatedly ruled out such a scenario, however, saying any regional vote on secession would be illegal.
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Adding to the problems of authorities trying to stem the violence, a group in the southeast calling for secession declared support for the Avengers.
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Securing international support for secession was always going to be an uphill battle, and the Catalan government appears to have overestimated its chances here.
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The 2005 Anti-Secession Law includes a declaration of independence, or other official moves by Taipei toward independence, as a basis to attack Taiwan.
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Without a U.S. red line against the use of force, Beijing would have been far less inclined to pass the 2005 Anti-Secession Law.
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The start on Tuesday of the trial will refocus attention on the region's push for secession which so rattles Spain's political and cultural identity.
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There was no claim of responsibility for the blast, which is usually the case in Thailand's deep south, where insurgents are fighting for secession.
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But Catalan leadership claims that it passed with 89.9 percent of the vote, and say they intend to formally declare secession within a week.
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At a European Union summit last week, leaders sought to minimize Spain's crisis with Catalonia and described the secession bid as a domestic issue.
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No, it's more interesting and useful to think about the culpability of the same panicked tech elites that are currently agitating for California secession.
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In the end, both sides claimed victory: The Catalan government said that 18903 percent of some 2.3 million voters were in favor of secession.
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Torra said that, if the 12 politicians and activists were not acquitted, he would put forward a plan to head towards secession from Spain.
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The central government has declined to reimpose control, the researchers believe, for fear of drawing attention to the town's lesson that secession brings safety.
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In contrast to the so-called Calexit movement, which aspires to secession, these proponents see California's salvation in greater local autonomy within the union.
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Some 48 percent of Catalans supported secession in a poll in July, although that it is below its peak from a few years ago.
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As the violence and calls for secession in English-speaking areas rise, the issue is quickly becoming a big problem for the central government.
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Ms. Sturgeon knows that she would need to win a new referendum; another loss would bury all hopes of secession for the foreseeable future.
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Now that it has turned out to be a one-way ticket out of Europe, some Scots who opposed secession before have switched sides.
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Spain could veto Scotland joining the EU if the secession process from the United Kingdom was illegal, wary of encouraging separatist forces in Catalonia.
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The state senator championing the secession effort, two-time mayoral candidate John Marchi, was revered as a statesman of unusual scholarliness and ethical rigor.
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Spain could veto Scotland joining the EU if the secession process from the United Kingdom was illegal, wary of encouraging separatist forces in Catalonia.
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Sterling remains the market's release valve for Brexit uncertainty and today's rally remains within the tight range created by the two binary secession outcomes.
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A group of liberal Californians formed the Yes California Independence campaign with the hopes of getting a secession initiative on the state's 2018 ballot.
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Campaigners from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have intensified calls for secession since their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was released on bail in April.
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She said the battle over secession also prompted "competitive outbidding" between right-wing politicians trying to outdo one another as defenders of Spanish sovereignty.
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Last November, Yes California was thrust into the national spotlight after the election of Donald J. Trump unleashed a wave of interest in secession.
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The page "Heart of Texas," for example, targeted users in that state in the bid to promote a pro-secession rally in November 2016.
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European markets got a lift on Monday after an opinion poll showing waning support for independence soothed investors' concerns over a Catalan secession from Spain.
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Those leaders who remained in Spain were imprisoned due to the flight risk they posed and the threat of them continuing to push for secession.
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An independence push in the northeastern region of Catalonia, which is governed by pro-secession parties, is putting the head of state in another bind.
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He has said he would rescind direct rule regardless of the election result, but could re-impose it if a new government again pursued secession.
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This distinguishes Scotland, which held a referendum agreed with London in 2014, from Catalonia, where Spain's Constitutional Court has said the 1978 constitution forbids secession.
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The region's secession campaign gained momentum in 2014 from an independence referendum in Scotland, where voters eventually opted to remain part of the United Kingdom.
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Lithuania proclaimed independence in March 1990, becoming the first Soviet republic to do so, and Moscow tried to foil the secession with an economic blockade.
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It would also involve recognizing the complaints of the many Igbo voices who are weary of marginalization but do not support the idea of secession.
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If Brexit results in Scotland leaving the UK, this could also intensify secession pressures in other parts of the EU, such as Catalonia in Spain.
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Texans and Californians who supported their state's secession in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election may have been duped by the Russian government.
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The Russian group operated "Heart of Texas," which at one point had 250,000 followers, making it the most popular Texas secession page on the platform.
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Salmond's party wants Scotland to stay in the EU, but it would split three centuries of trade and political ties with England via Scottish secession.
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Catalonia's secession would raise a whole host of questions for a range of international bodies — most notably, the European Union — that they'd prefer to ignore.
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The Kurds say the referendum results give them a mandate to start secession talks, but the Iraqi government says that's not going to happen. 5.
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Nationalist sentiment lies along a spectrum, and giving unhappy regions more say over their taxing and spending can deflect moderates from a pro-secession stance.
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Both recover the fundamental distinction between the sections that enabled Lincoln to mobilize the North on behalf of the Union in opposition to Southern secession.
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Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic law says Hong Kong will enact a law to prohibit "treason, secession, sedition (and) subversion" against the national government.
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But the results of the vote delivered a slim majority to separatists, heightening the possibility of a renewed push for secession from Spain this year.
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But I noticed that Kiefer, now our make-believe president (a Canadian, actually) has more relevant issues on his mind, like secession and states' rights.
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Sessions also seemed to link California's unwillingness to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to the secession of Southern states and the creation of the Confederacy.
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Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull, however, told Catalan radio this was not an option and instead suggested that the parliament could move forward with secession.
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Spain's new prime minister is already facing a major issue just hours after being sworn in Saturday: finding a solution to the Catalan secession crisis.
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It coincides with a Serbian Orthodox Christian festival and also marks the Serb territory's 1992 secession from Bosnia, which triggered a bloody three-year war.
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Catalan officials said 21 percent of voters in Sunday's ballot favoured secession, raising the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence in the wealthy region.
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The euro also drifted lower against the dollar after local officials said 90 percent of voters favored secession in Sunday's referendum, which Madrid declared illegal.
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Watching the events unfold on two giant television screens, the crowds whooped as every pro-independence lawmaker voted yes to secession — and booed every no.
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The Basic Law requires the city to create laws against treason, secession and subversion of the national government, effectively updating those from the colonial era.
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Their tastes as collectors were eclectic, from still lifes and landscapes to love-and-death goth by Franz von Stuck of the Munich Secession movement.
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In his acknowledgments, he notes that Vermont has already had one "minor-league attempt" at a secession movement, about a decade ago, that failed, spectacularly.
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That alone, because of the precedent Clemon helped set in the Stout case decades earlier, was enough to put an end to the secession effort.
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An opinion poll in July showed backing for secession at its lowest level in two years, with 48.3% of people against and 44% in favour.
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Spain's main parties have consistently refused to hold a plebiscite on secession, although Sanchez's Socialists have said they are open to dialog on other issues.
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The videos also captured a man who said he belonged to Ambazonia Liberation Forces, a separatist group demanding a secession from the West African country.
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An earlier version of this article misstated Australia's status in the British Empire when voters in Western Australia voted in favor of secession in 1933.
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The survey found that 51% supported independence, YouGov said, the first time the pollster had found majority backing for a "Yes" to secession since 2015.
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When Alfred Stieglitz staged the first non-photography exhibition at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later called 291), in 1907, he chose Smith's work.
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Turnout for the election is expected to reach a record 80 percent as the deeply divisive issue of the region's secession prompts participation from both sides.
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Daniel Hannan, one of the most influential Brexit thinkers, pointed in a EuroMoney interview to the example of Irish secession and its bloody birth and aftermath.
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However, it is designed to give Masoud Barzani, who heads the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), a mandate to negotiate the secession of the oil-producing region.
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The region's leaders held an unconstitutional referendum on secession in 2017; after they declared "independence", the national government imposed direct rule and dissolved the Catalan parliament.
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Iran and Turkey also oppose any move toward Kurdish secession and their armies have started joint exercises near their borders with Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days.
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Even if Puigdemont's referendum doesn't happen, the hasty move could encourage Spain's lawmakers to reconsider various constitutional statutes to give Catalan more autonomy without complete secession.
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But Giscard was "mindful of the history of the secession and the Civil War in the United States" and sought to create a peaceful way out.
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The Socialists, however, have opposed allowing Catalonia to hold a referendum on secession, and this could remain a sticking point as it fights to forge pacts.
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Catalonia has been fighting for independence from Spain for years, but last month held an Independence Referendum in which the majority of Catalans voting backed secession.
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The conflict in South Sudan, whose 2011 secession from Sudan had long enjoyed the support of the United States, has torn apart the world's youngest country.
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It claims a population of 963, nearly all of whom show up on the last Sunday of every June for the the town's Secession Days celebration.
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The insurgents said that their fight for self-determination is not a fight for secession; they want to run their own affairs within a federal union.
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In that talk, Moore explained when he thinks dramatic steps like secession and armed revolution are justified, saying that they should be considered a last resort.
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Although I must admit that when I covered the state capitol in New York, I had a fling with the idea of New York City secession.
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The KRG says it plans to use the referendum's result as a mandate to negotiate the peaceful secession of the Kurdish region through talks with Baghdad.
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Sanchez, who opposes secession and a referendum, favored talks with the Catalan separatist government at the beginning of his term, but the talks collapsed in February.
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Kurds vote overwhelmingly in favor of secession from Iraq Kirkuk is critical to the government coffers of both the KRG and the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
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In 2013, the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Jon Carson, said as much in a written response to an online secession petition.
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Yes California, a grass-roots organization with 3,000 or so supporters, has for years been trying to persuade Californians to take up the cause of secession.
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His famously hand-wrought houses, Kelmscott Manor and the Red House, depended on the broader fabric of Victorian prosperity to support their own secession from it.
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Citizens, a party that originated in Catalonia, is fiercely opposed to secession from Spain, while Podemos has pledged to hold an independence referendum in the region.
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The most heavily Republican counties in the state are northern rural counties, outposts of conservatism where secession movements have gained attention at times in recent decades.
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Kidnapping incidents have increased this year in Cameroon's volatile Anglophone regions by armed separatist groups calling for a secession of those areas, according to Amnesty International.
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The move to seize the border posts is a response to a Kurdish referendum on Monday that produced a vote in favor of secession from Iraq.
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Editorial The brutality of the Spanish police on Sunday in their mission to shut down the Catalan secession referendum succeeded mostly in deepening a political crisis.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain did not respond immediately to Mr. Puigdemont's arrest, but Albert Rivera, leader of the anti-secession party Ciudadanos, welcomed it.
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The Spanish Supreme Court closed the trial of 12 leaders of the Catalan independence movement accused of staging a rebellion during their botched 2017 secession attempt.
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And last year, Hong Kong expelled a Financial Times editor who had hosted a talk by an activist who called for the city's secession from China.
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Iran and Turkey also oppose any move toward Kurdish secession and their armies have started joint drills near their borders with Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days.
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The main reasons are mismanagement, corruption, unchecked spending on the security sector and the loss of oil revenues after the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
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He also took an obligatory stance for Staten Island's secession from the city, a hopeless yet perennial issue among islanders who felt they received short shrift.
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The final results are still being tabulated, but according to the Kurdish authorities, more than 90 percent of people voted for secession in the nonbinding referendum.
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"The implications of Brexit are so potentially far reaching that, as they become clearer, I think people will increasingly demand that choice (on secession)," Sturgeon said.
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Ever since the referendum, Brexit has divided the United Kingdom and fuelled soul-searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, empire and modern Britishness.
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Western powers, after decades of promoting that ideal as the basis of secession, including in backing Kosovo's independence, have struggled for a way to dissuade Catalans.
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Aung San had promised them eventual self-determination — perhaps even secession — in exchange for their support in securing independence from the British for the whole country.
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It was in the presidential transition period between 1860 and 1861 that the U.S. unraveled into the Union and the Confederacy, the so-called Secession Winter.
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The secession movement in the wealthy northeastern region has been largely peaceful, but with the verdict imminent authorities are bracing for protests that could turn violent.
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He says the financial construct that made secession possible in the 1990s, which included charging New York City to dump in Fresh Kills, no longer exists.
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Harlan ultimately opposed secession and fought against the Confederacy, but he also opposed the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's re-election bid, and the 13th and 14th Amendments.
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The windows on West 11th Street are still impressively wide; the tablecloths are still white; the chairs are still black, high-backed and convincingly Secession-ish.
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The Catalans abandoned Mr. Sánchez once it became clear he was only interested in piecemeal concessions to Catalonia, instead of allowing them a referendum on secession.
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Though it came as a surprise to some Thursday night, Britain's decision to leave the EU has delivered good news to secession movements outside of Britain.
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Barcelona has buzzed for the past two months with repeated, large-scale protests, mostly for independence but also including one rally of more than 300,000 against secession.
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But it did push the idea that if they can land a measure on the ballot for secession, they have a good chance to win over voters.
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Catalonia has sworn in a new government, automatically ending a seven-month takeover by Spain&aposs central authorities following a failed secession bid by the restive region.
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While he appears to be more open to dialogue than his predecessor, Sanchez has made clear he is opposed to any independence referendum or attempt at secession.
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This isn't the first effort aimed at California secession but leaders say the previous tries were mostly about building awareness of the issue and increasing public support.
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Though the referendum was opposed by international allies, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani was confident its outcome would give his government leverage to negotiate secession.
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The scarves bore the slogan "It&aposs in our hands" written in Basque Organizers say 175,000 people participated, including Basque and Catalan pro-secession politicians and activists.
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Rajoy had already been under fire for his handling of the secession crisis in Catalonia, with many voters turning away from his People's Party (PP) to Ciudadanos.
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If her browser history is filled with RT articles and her Facebook is stocked with state secession groups, she is likely being influenced by Putin's keyboard warriors.
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Mr Bentley omitted to mention that detail in the sanctimonious statement he made in the old state house chamber, beneath a plaque commemorating Alabama's secession in 1861.
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Those who want to maintain the United Kingdom argue that Brexit has made no difference to how Scots feel, and the secession vote should not be repeated.
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Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont flew to Brussels this week after Spanish authorities removed him and his 13-member Cabinet from office for pushing ahead with secession.
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Catalonia, which has a distinctive culture and language, triggered Spain's biggest political crisis for decades with a secession bid it put to a referendum on Oct 1.
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And on the extreme end, the Calexit movement for California secession — elevated by venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar — cleared administrative hurdles to become a ballot initiative in 2019.
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Rose, a prominent lawyer who served as head of the American Bar Association, opposed secession during the Civil War but remained loyal to Arkansas, a Confederate state.
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Across Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain, tens of thousands of people turned out to cast votes in an unconstitutional referendum on secession organised by the regional government.
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The issue of secession first arose in the 1960s with the wave of decolonisation and questions over the viability of the newly independent states across the continent.
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But in Spain the triumph of secession would have set a terrible example, just imagine, for Hungary, Poland, Denmark, wherever there are outbreaks of nationalists operating today.
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Crisis finally arrived with the 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president, the subsequent secession of 11 Southern states, and the breakout of the Civil War.
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While one group's efforts may be over, another organization could retool the push to get the question of California secession on the ballot, the Sacramento Bee reports.
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Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb leader, has said that the Republika Srpska will vote on secession by 2018, and Sunday's vote was seen as a trial run.
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"Nobody should try to dismantle the Republika Srpska at the constitutional court," said the region's president, Milorad Dodik, who has often called for its secession from Bosnia.
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To make the secession a reality, the Second Vermont Republic should take a page from the Free State Project's playbook by inviting people to move to Vermont.
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The deadlock means that, three months after elections, Mr Mas still cannot form a government to carry out his programme of moving steadily towards secession from Spain.
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Those freedoms are outlined in the Basic Law, a mini-constitution that also demands the city pass its own law covering treason, secession and subversion against Beijing.
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They face multiple charges including complicity in hostility against the homeland, secession and civil war, and campaigning for federalism following their involvement in the English regions' protests.
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The celebrated bel paese (beautiful country) has been experiencing for quite some time tendencies of greater regional autonomy, or outright secession, in some of its northern provinces.
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In December, an executive committee of the Republican Party of Texas approved a resolution supporting secession and calling for the issue to be put to voters statewide.
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Political groups such as the New Flemish Alliance, a nationalist, conservative group which is dominant in the Belgian parliament, advocate a gradual secession of Flanders from Belgium.
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Its Anti-Secession Law, passed in 2005 after Chen's reelection, included as a rationale for war the mere failure of Taiwan to move toward unification with China.
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Impeached in 1862, Humphreys was subsequently convicted charges including calling for secession from the union, aiding an armed rebellion, and serving as a Confederate judge, among others.
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The Catalan authorities say more than 90 percent of those who voted backed secession, but opinion polls on the issue suggest the region is more closely divided.
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Among the issues pushed by the page was the notion of Texas secession from the U.S., calling for rallies just days before the presidential election in November.
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Weeks before the Olympics, Britons had voted to leave the European Union in a referendum that could hasten Scottish secession and the breakup of the United Kingdom.
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"However, given the political and legal barriers to Catalan secession, a compromise that simply grants the region more autonomy appears far more likely than independence," Jones said.
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