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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 Reconsidered (pdf) by Robert W. McGee, 1994
The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History (pdf) by Andrei Kreptul, 2003
Economic Secession Won't Succeed by Gene Callahan and Paul Birch, April 2003
Secession Is in Our Future by Clifford F. Thies, April 2009
The Quotable Mises - on the subject of secession

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 * [http://mises.org/journals/jls/11_1/11_1_2.pdf Secession Reconsidered] (pdf) by Robert W. McGee, 1994
 * [http://mises.org/journals/jls/17_4/17_4_3.pdf The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History] (pdf) by Andrei Kreptul, 2003
-* [http://mises.org/daily/1204 Economic Secession Won't Succeed] by Gene Callahan and Paul Birch, April 2003
+* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/1204 Economic Secession Won't Succeed] by Gene Callahan and Paul Birch, April 2003
-* [http://mises.org/daily/3427 Secession Is in Our Future] by Clifford F. Thies, April 2009
+* [https://mises.freecapitalists.org/daily/3427 Secession Is in Our Future] by Clifford F. Thies, April 2009
 * [http://mises.org/quotes.aspx?action=subject&subject=Secession The Quotable Mises] - on the subject of secession