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   Se·ces·sion

   /səˈseSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state: "the republics want secession from the union"
   • ▪ the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
   • ▪ variant of Sezession

   Word Origin mid 16th century (denoting the withdrawal of plebeians from ancient Rome in order to compel the patricians to redress their grievances): from French sécession or Latin secessio(n-), from secedere ‘go apart’ (see secede).

   Derivatives

   • 1. secessional adjective
   • 2. secessionism noun

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   What is secession?

   • Definition of secession noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary secession (from something) the fact of an area or group becoming independent from the country or larger group that it belongs to The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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   Do secessionists have the right to secede?

   • Remarkably, philosophical theories of secession have not distinguished between having the right to secede and being justified in using force to exercise the right. Nor have they discussed the conditions under which states have the right to use force to resist secessions when the secessionists have no moral right to secede.

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   What is the difference between Secession and state-breaking?

   • It is useful to distinguish secession from other ways in which “separation” or “state-breaking” can occur. In what might be called secession in the classic sense, a group in a portion of the territory of a state attempt to create a new state there; secessionists attempt to exit, leaving behind the original state in reduced form.

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   What is philosophical work on secession?

   • Philosophical work on secession can be divided into three categories: (1) attempts to articulate the conditions under which a group has the moral right to secede; (2) examinations of the compatibility or incompatibility of secession with constitutionalism, (3) attempts to determine what position international law should take regarding secession.

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   secession (from something) the fact of an area or group becoming independent from the country or larger group that it belongs to. Definition of secession noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Feb 7, 2003 · 1. Philosophical Issues of Secession. 1.1 The distinction between a (mere) justification and having a claim-right. 1.2 Constitutional theorizing about secession. 2. Theories of the Right to Secede. 2.1 Remedial Right Only Theories. 2.2 Plebiscitary Theories. 2.3 Ascriptivist Theories.

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   secession. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English se‧ces‧sion /sɪˈseʃən/ noun [ countable, uncountable] when a country or state officially stops being part of another country and becomes independent OPP accession a vote in favor of secession secession from Croatia’s secession from Yugoslavia Examples from the Corpus secession ...

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   May 16, 2024 · noun. 1. US. an act of seceding; formal withdrawal or separation. 2. [often S-] the withdrawal of the Southern states from the federal Union at the start of the Civil War.

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   secession /sɪ ˈ sɛʃən/ noun. plural secessions. Britannica Dictionary definition of SECESSION. [count] : the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent. the secession of the Southern states.

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   Aug 20, 2020 · In his new book, Break It Up: Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union, Richard Kreitner explores the history of secession movements in the United States — which ...

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    Secession definition: . See examples of SECESSION used in a sentence.