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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Contributors

We are looking for freedom-minded individuals that are willing and able to write about proper Constitutional Republican government, States' Rights, independence and secession.

*names in italics are pseudonyms chosen by the author

EL Cid- [send him email] Is a 1990 graduate of The Citadel (BA History) and a 1995 graduate of Kansas State University (BS Electrical Engineering) and holds a MA in Military History from American Military University. He blogs here. Author of Secessionist Paper's 1, 2, 3,4 and 5

Brian McCandliss- [send him mail] is a business and economics graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, a law student, and a businessman in Detroit, Michigan. Author of Secessionist Paper No. 6.

Michael Peirce- [send him email]  fought with the Rhodesian freedom fighters (the Ian Smith side, of course). View an archive of his other writing. Author of Secessionist Paper No. 7.

Dr. Walter Block- [send him email] is a professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans and holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics. Author of Secessionist Paper No. 8.

Hugh Williamson- is Professor of Political Science at a university and the author of a book about Calhoun and Secessionist Paper No. 9.

Dr. Thomas E. Woods Jr. -is a 1994 graduate of Harvard College, holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is currently a professor of history at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, New York. Author of Secessionist Paper No. 10. He is also the author of the recent book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Kirkpatrick Sale - is the author of thirteen books, including Human Scale and Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (University of Georgia Press).  He is a founder and director of The Middlebury Institute for “the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.” Author of Secessionist Paper No. 12, 13, 14 and 15.

Kevin L. Clauson -B.A. (International Relations), B.S. (Chemistry), M.A. (Political Science), Marshall University; J.D. (Law), West Virginia University. President, Christ College; President, The Patrick Henry Institute; Former Chair, Government Department, Liberty University; Professor of Government, Helms School of Government, Liberty University; Former Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grove City College. Married (since 1982); four children (ages 12-21, as of May 1, 2006). He blogs here. He is the author of Secessionist Paper No. 11.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail] is the author of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, (Three Rivers Press/Random House). His latest book is How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold Story of Our Country’s History, from the Pilgrims to the Present (Crown Forum/Random House, August 2004). He is the author of Secessionist Paper No. 18.

North American * Secession and Independence Movements

SC Republic
Republic of Texas
Hawai'i Independence
Alaska Independence Party
Second Vermont Republic
League of the South
South Carolina LOS
Christian Exodus
Free California
Bear Flag Party
Cascadia
Independent Michigan
Republic of New Hampshire
Parti Quebecois
United West Party
Separation Party of Alberta
*Puerto Rican Independence Party
Patriots for Liberty
Lakota

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

Active Secession Movements Around the World

 

Secessionist Papers Contributors
Secessionist Paper No.1
Secessionist Paper No.2
Secessionist Paper No.3
Secessionist Paper No.4
Secessionist Paper No.5
Secessionist Paper No.6
Secessionist Paper No.7
Secessionist Paper No.8
Secessionist Paper No.9

Secessionist Paper No.10

Secessionist Paper No.11
Secessionist Paper No. 12
Secessionist Paper No. 13
Secessionist Paper No. 14
Secessionist Paper No. 15
Secessionist Paper No. 16
Secessionist Paper No. 17
Secessionist Paper No. 18
Secessionist Paper No. 19
Secessionist Paper No. 20
Secessionist Paper No. 21

 

One Nation Indivisible?

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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