Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the ...

Some people said it was time for California - a frequently left-leaning, progressive state where Trump got only 38 percent of ...

John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg ...

Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Southern states were already passing resolutions of secession one after another, with South Carolina taking the lead. Meanwhile, the Confederate ... exchange of letters with Alexander Stephens ...

not authority for single-state secession,” he added. Carrillo in his blog post also pointed to a letter penned by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, “If there was any ...

Trump seems inclined to turn the Cold Civil War into a hot one, and that should terrify us. The right leader might not prevent our cultural secession ... please submit a letter to the editor.

Support for secession is most forcefully expressed by ... have the right to secede from the Union. In the wake of the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White (1869) that states ...

The Confederate battle flag became the rallying symbol of that secession. The Civil War ended in 1865. Slavery as an institution ended, but the subjugation of African Americans continued for ...

On Friday, we celebrated Confederate Memorial Day here in South ... laid out the primary reasoning behind South Carolina’s secession from the Union as an “increasing hostility on the part ...