American Secession Project

Dedicated to placing secession in the mainstream of political thought as a viable solution to contemporary problems.

"The denial of the right to secede from a voluntary union is itself a primary justification for secession"

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The 2008 Secessionist Convention to be held in November (specific dates TBD) in Columbia SC.  Check back for complete details as they develop.

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The American Secession Project proposes and will sponsor a call for papers in support of this year's convention.  The philosophy of secession is well established and thoroughly argued sufficiently already. Our opponents cannot argue against the notion based upon historical or legal points - they are reduced to simple dismissals concerning thoughts that "the issue was settled already" or that it is not practical.  It is the practicality issue that presents the the biggest obstacle to our cause.  In that light we are calling for scholarly papers dealing with the following subjects:

• National Defense in a devolved paradigm
• Dealing with "entitlements" and bloated social programs of a failed empire - balancing misplaced expectations and new freedom
• Economic realities of devolution; wages, trade, debt
• Cultural flowering and preservation within the borders of a failed empire
• Immigration
• Trade and diplomatic relations between newly free regions
• Pathways to peaceful devolution
• Who gets what; dividing the spoils of a failed empire

This list is not exhaustive but captures the heart of the matter of  practicality. Papers should be fully researched and cited, with a thesis, argument and conclusion. Please contact us at info@secessionist.us if you are interested in participating in this call for papers for further information.

North American * Secession and Independence Movements

*Hawaii and Puerto Rico are obviously not part of North America, no offense intended

Active Secession Movements Around the World

One Nation Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution

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To the People of the various States:

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new form of government for the various united states. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the disbanding of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in the making. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.

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