| The Southern ruling class seceded from the US in early 1861 to defend a social system built on the backs of destitute slaves. |
| Once these republics seceded, however, the legal status of minorities, such as the Serbs in Croatia, was undermined. |
| Frustrated by the PSI's unproductiveness, many of its members seceded in 1921 to form the Communist Party under Bordiga, Gramsci, and Togliatti. |
| The Ukrainian Church has seceded from the Patriarchate of Moscow where it was placed uncanonically and illegally. |
| There really were only thirteen communicants in the parish when these had seceded. |
| In the other nine States which profess to have seceded, including South Carolina, those laws are not enforceable anywhere. |
