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RoyGBiv

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Sat Mar-25-06 10:59 PM
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23. It's the word that bothers me ...

The word "secession" carries a legal veneer because secession of various types, especially in other countries, is in fact legal, if not easy to accomplish. (Trivia: The former Yugoslavia broke up and went into a bloody period of savage war over just this issue when secession was technically legal and deemed legal yet resisted by the powers-that-be.)

Your comment about people having ideological, etc. reasons for wanting to separate from a nation motivating them to try it is dead-on accurate. But, it's not secession. It's rebellion. That's what Jefferson, et al did in the 18th century.

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