If the Union is truly indestructible, then states cannot secede even if the national government is willing to let them go. |
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It is this kind of indifference to their future that turns north-easterners wish to secede from India. |
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He has dramatically warned that if he is impeached a number of provinces will secede from Indonesia. |
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The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South secede and becoming an egalitarian social democracy. |
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If Vermont or Southern California were to secede, a lot of us would join them. |
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With the southern states threatening to secede from the fragile Union, the delegates agreed to the Three-Fifths Compromise. |
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Conversely, a claim of a right to secede from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate. |
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The state legislature was soon to convene, with some of its members seeking to have the state secede from t he Union. |
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Four out of the six provinces on the island of Madagascar have declared their intention to secede and form an independent entity. |
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What was Abraham Lincoln's answer to Southerners who voted democratically to secede? |
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The electorate votes on whether to secede from an existing nation and claim its independence for the entire world to see. |
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Many of the planets were run by makeshift despotic governments that intended to secede from the Republic. |
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This time, the heirs of the Confederacy have learned that is more effective to suborn the government than secede. |
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Voters in a corner of Colorado will vote Tuesday on whether to secede from the state. |
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If they were in the majority with no need to secede, what would they do? |
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The only way to prevent this would be to secede from the Union. |
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In return, they don't secede or otherwise make a nuisance of themselves. |
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At this point the Kurds were faced with two options: to either withdraw from the central government or to secede. |
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The other is giving succour to the restless Tory right who detest the EU and want to see Britain secede from it. |
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It may be so, but the laws are enacted by the will of one ethnic group alone motivated by the drive to secede from the State of Serbia. |
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A group that finds itself outside the federal government will have less stake in the federation and more incentive to secede. |
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An area of the canton of Berne was agitating to secede, and this was permitted under legislation adopted by the canton. |
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We refer to Yugoslavia but it is no help to Mr Kostunica if we appear to be implying that Montenegro, for example, will secede. |
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A third group, Al-Hirak Al Janoubi, is gaining ground with calls for southern Yemen to secede. |
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Mr. Daniel Turp: Since the clarity act apparently allows another province to secede, are you telling me that this would apply to all provinces? |
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In some cases the Serbs were de facto separatists, wanting to secede from the separating entity. |
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Hongkongers aren't asking to secede from China, but Beijing's faulty calculus is only alienating the city. |
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I voted today because after what happened in Odessa and Mariupol, unity of Ukraine is impossible and it is better to secede. |
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White, held that states did not have the right to secede and that any act of secession was legally void. |
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The radical party agitated for the region to secede from the confederation and establish self-government. |
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Mr Sweepclean, secede paulisper, or, in your own language, grant us a supersedere of diligence for five minutes. |
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Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts to become a separate state. |
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On 9 December 2005, Imperial announced that it would commence negotiations to secede from the University of London. |
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The outcome will either strongly deter other separatist movements from attempting to secede, or produce a result that could encourage them to act in a similar fashion. |
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The failure of the first railway project put Confederation itself in danger, for British Columbia was threatening to secede, and the prairie economy was at a standstill. |
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The judgment from the ICJ in The Hague – to be issued at 2pm – is not legally binding, but is likely to have profound consequences for Kosovo and other de facto states and territories that might secede in the future. |
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Over the last year, however, the fledgling leadership in Kiev has been beset by separatists in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, and has seen the Crimea region vote to secede. |
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Mr. William Johnson: A province does not have the right to secede. |
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According to article 4 of the Constitution, individual municipalities have the right to secede from the union pursuant to a popular vote and rules set out by law or treaty. |
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Eventually, Britain will leave the European Union, Constitution or not, withdrawal clause or not, but at least Mr Stubb has the decency to recognise that countries should have the right to secede from the new European empire. |
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Tell me whether the Francophone minority of Ontario would have the same right to secede as the Anglophone community of Quebec would have to remain in Canada, as you claim. |
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I would have had a preamble that emphasized much more strongly the fact that this bill accepts in principle that Quebec can secede and become a sovereign country. |
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Mr. William Johnson: Mr. Bachand, there are two ways to secede, one by negotiation and here a referendum held in a municipality would be part of the political statements, the facts and the data. |
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What it does mean is there are two ways, and only two ways, to secede. |
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It is not a matter of exclusive provincial jurisdiction alone to determine whether a province is to secede and the terms upon which it is to secede. |
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Mr. Grant Hill: You've mentioned provincial participation as being a fairly significant factor in this, meaning the provinces outside of the province asking to secede. |
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If the National Assembly has the right to consult its population on a proposal to secede, it must be able to do so free from any constraint or interference from another parliament. |
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Representatives of indigenous groups argued in favour of an unqualified right of self-determination, though that did not necessarily mean that the right would be used to secede from the States of which they now formed a part. |
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That is to say, those rights cannot be exercised in a way that would trigger negotiations on secession from Canada unless it is clear the people of Quebec actually wanted to secede from Canada. |
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On the contrary, they would refuse to secede. |
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The only way Ottawa, or the no side, could counter that argument would be by specifying that Quebec would secede if there were a yes vote and that there would be no partnership. |
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Certainly it seems to me to follow as a matter of logic that if Quebec can divide Canada, the Province of Quebec has no right to secede without its borders at least being discussed. |
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Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. |
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Article 39 of the Ethiopian Constitution further gives every regional state the right to secede from Ethiopia. |
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Individual members were free to, and often did, secede from a tuath and join a competing tuath. |
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In 2002, some Hollywood voters began a campaign for the area to secede from Los Angeles and become a separate municipality. |
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The first six states to secede held the greatest number of slaves in the South. |
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By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over, as the Baltic republics chose to secede from the Soviet Union. |
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The first six states to secede were those with the highest number of slaves. |
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At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America. |
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The quartering of Spanish troops in Catalonia only made the situation worse, and the Catalans decided to secede from Spain altogether and unite with France. |
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It wanted the Caprivi Strip to secede in order to form its own society. |
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Few national constitutions provide a right of secession, but municipalities in Liechtenstein are entitled to secede from the union by majority vote. |
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In 1986, Aruba was allowed to secede from the Netherlands Antilles federation, and was pressured by the Netherlands to move to independence within ten years. |
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