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Secession is the voluntary assertion of a people for separation from a higher government, historically resulting from a series of grievances. It is a central idea in the classical liberal understanding of political order, as elucidated by Ludwig von Mises in Nation, State, and Economy (1919):

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

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-'''Secession''' is the act of withdrawing of persons from a political entity like the state or the central government, historically resulting from a series of grievances.
+'''Secession''' is the voluntary assertion of a people for separation from a higher government, historically resulting from a series of grievances. It is a central idea in the [[Classical liberalism|classical liberal]] understanding of political order, as elucidated by [[Ludwig von Mises]] in ''[http://mises.org/nsande.asp Nation, State, and Economy]'' (1919): <blockquote>No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.</blockquote>
-Secession -in an ethical sense- should be a voluntary assertion of individuals, otherwise one may simply call it also political separation.
-It is a central idea in the [[Classical liberalism|classical liberal]] understanding of political order, as elucidated by [[Ludwig von Mises]] in ''[http://mises.org/nsande.asp Nation, State, and Economy]'' (1919): <blockquote>No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.</blockquote>
-However, secession has no well embraced political backup. Many people prefer wrong defined minarchist ends, and think that secession is Utopia.
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