In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the...

from the United States and become an independent sovereign state. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address the secession of states, and the issue...

slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America. South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas...

the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form the Confederate States of...

Partition and secession in the United States may refer to: Secession in the United States List of U.S. state partition proposals This disambiguation page...

there have been some calls for the secession of multiple states or large regions in the American West (such as the proposal of Cascadia) which often...

secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include: the Confederate States of...

the American Civil War. In 1860 and 1861, 11 southern states each declared secession from the United States and joined to form the Confederate States...

and Practice of Secession. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9780754671633. Wikimedia Commons has media related to States of the United States. State Resource...

active separatist movements in North America List of U.S. county secession proposals Territorial evolution of the United States, noting all state boundary...

(January 1, 2004). "The Institutional Basis of Secessionist Politics: Federalism and Secession in the United States". Publius: The Journal of Federalism...

Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress". At the time of Vermont's secession in 1777, the Constitution of the United States did not yet...

after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican...

states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland". The map implies the existence of a fundamental...

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation...

to the topic, issued declarations of secession from the United States and created the Confederate States of America. Four more joined them after the war...

passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...

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reasons for seceding from the United States. It followed the brief Ordinance of Secession that had been issued on December 20. The declaration is a product...

to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States...

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The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States...

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...

eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War. The states were South Carolina, Mississippi...

for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations, where it is one of the founding members and one of the five permanent members of the United Nations...

political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents. The following third parties have members in state legislatures...

In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for...

against the Alaskan statehood vote. In 1973, Vogler began circulating a petition seeking support for secession of Alaska from the United States. The Alaska...

unilaterally secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give...

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau...