Grassroots secession efforts have gained traction amid deepening cultural rifts in the country, some calling for leaving the union outright, others looking to form brand new states.

The potential switch of Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine to Russia raises the more general issue of the right of secession. Many individual freedoms — for example, of speech, the press and… ...

OPINION: Secession talk always is en vogue when a Republican is in the White House Over Independence Day weekend, the Daily Mail highlighted a professor emeritus’ pontifications about a second ...

Within months, 10 other slave-holding Southern states followed South Carolina’s example. Secession did not turn out so well for the South and no one has made a serious effort to disunite the ...

As of Saturday November 10, 2012, 15 States have petitioned the Obama Administration for withdrawal from the United States of America in order to create its own government. States following this ...

Secession can come in many forms ... One federal-trial seat in Texas has been vacant for 1,951 days, to give just one example. The absence of these judges, ...

Yet the myth that Texas can easily secede persists, in part, because of the state’s history of independence.. Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836 and spent the next nine years as its ...

The crisis kicked off by Catalonia’s contested October 1 secession vote has come to a head. Following police violence, imprisonments, and mass protests, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy ...

The examples of the secession of South Sudan and Eritrea raise serious questions and doubts about the outcomes of breakaway states. The general approach to calls for secession in Africa, ...

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Some have pointed to Britain's 2016 vote to leave the European Union as an example. ... Yet the myth that Texas can easily secede persists, in part, because of the state's history of independence.