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* [http://mises.org/journals/jls/11_1/11_1_2.pdf Secession Reconsidered] (pdf) by Robert W. McGee, 1994
* [https://freecapitalists.org/journals/jls/11-1-2/ 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
* [https://freecapitalists.org/journals/jls/17-4-3/ The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History] (pdf) by Andrei Kreptul, 2003
* [https://mises.freecapitalists.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  
* [https://mises.freecapitalists.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

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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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