In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union. The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession. This movement collapsed in 1865 with the defeat of Confederate forces by Union armies in the American Civil War.
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In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union. Some have argued for secession as a constitutional right and others as from a natural right of revolution. The most serious attempt at secession was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as 11 Southern states each declared secession. This movement collapsed in 1865 with the defeat of Confederate forces by Union armies in the American Civil War. The Declaration of Independence states: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing… a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it’s their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”The case can be made that no result of the war was more important than the destruction, once and for all, of the idea of secession”, says Forrest McDonald, a historian of the U.S. Constitution. “Sovereign states joined together for specific purposes from which they could withdraw at any time,” says McDonald. “The Constitution established change in the future as a legitimate means for constitutional change” in the Constitution, he says, adding that the Founders wanted to avoid violence to avoid the resorting of violence to change the Constitution.
But according to McDonald, according to the Founders, secession was not unknown and talk and talk of secession was. not unknown; it was just not talked about as much as it should have been in the first place, he adds. “In the founding era, many a public figure. declared that many states could interpose their powers between their citizens and the power of the federal government”, Forrest McDonald says. “It’s not unknown that many public figures have declared that disunion is a legitimate and perfected means of constitutional change”, he adds, “but it’s not known that many have done so”. “The Founders, in the end, decided that changing the Constitution was not a good idea,” Forrest McDonald writes. “They decided that it was a bad idea, and so they decided to change it. And so they did” in 1776, when the Constitution became the law of the land, he writes. The Constitution was enacted five days before the first Constitution of Virginia, which was enacted just days prior to the Declaration of independence. It was the first time a state could secede from the union, and the first state to do so was the state of Virginia in 1777. The U.N. Security Council ruled in 1778 that states could not leave the Union, but the Supreme Court ruled in 1878 that they could do so if they wanted to. The Supreme Court also ruled that unilateral secession was unconstitutional, while commenting that revolution or consent of the states could lead to a successful secession.
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