Federalism and Secession.
The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism. The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, this issue has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one of the first to explore the complex relat...
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505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Copyright information -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Federalism(s) and secession: from constitutional theory to practice -- Introduction -- 1. Confederation: a "free union" that hides its true nature? -- 1.1 From a union of sovereign states … -- 1.1.1 Confederation as viewed in Kantian political philosophy -- 1.1.2 The concept of confederation in public law -- 1.2 … to a "perpetual confederation" -- 1.2.1 Confederal laws against secession -- 1.2.2 The philosophical turning-point in the 16th century: the Dutch influence -- 1.2.3 Universalization of the right of secession: the US Declaration of Independence -- 2. The federal state: an "indissoluble union"? -- 2.1 Federal positive law -- 2.1.1 Federal constitutions expressly allowing a right of secession -- a) Constitutions that recognized a right of secession in the past -- b) Constitutions currently recognizing a right of secession -- 2.1.2 Federal constitutions excluding all forms of secession -- 2.1.3 Constitutions that remain silent on the question of secession -- a) Interpretation by Supreme Court justices: a centripetal constitutional force -- b) Federal realpolitik -- 2.2 Using constitutional theory to cut the Gordian knot of secession -- 2.2.1 The trap set by the syncretism of the federal state -- 2.2.2 Redefining the constitutional basis for secession -- a) Partial versus total revision -- b) Actual cases -- 2 Secession from a federation: a plea for an autonomous concept of federative secession 1 -- Introduction -- 1. Defining and identifying the concept of federative secession -- 1.1 The dominant conception of secession -- 1.1.1 Secession seen as the aspiration of an infra-state (or infra-nation) group to constitute its own state or nation -- 1.1.2 The legal dogma on secession -- a) Secession is not dissolution -- b) Secession is not devolution. | |
505 | 8 | |a 1.2 Federative secession and conceptual autonomy -- 1.2.1 Why the state-centric view of secession fails to account for the specific nature of federative secession -- 1.2.2 Dogma on federative secession -- a) Federative secession and intra-federative secession -- b) Secession of a member state and exclusion of a member state -- c) Unilateral or non-unilateral secession? -- d) The effects of secession: secession and dissolution -- 2. Deciding the licitness of federative secession: neither authorized nor prohibited (like secession from a unitary state) -- 2.1 Federative secession cannot be prohibited a priori -- 2.2 The impossible licitness of unilateral federative secession -- 3. The impossibility of imposing a legal sanction on federative secession -- 3.1 The distinction between federal intervention and federal execution -- 3.2 The Civil War, or the division of the union institutionalized by war -- 3 Are federalism and secession really incompatible? -- Introduction -- 1. General approach -- 2. Secession as seen by the theoreticians of federalism -- 3. Secession in positive law -- 4. Secession and "legal logic" -- Conclusion -- 4 From referendum to secession - Qu é bec's self-determination process and its lessons * -- Introduction -- 1 The constitutional capacity of Qu é bec's institutions to hold a referendum - A stake little debated or opposed -- 1.1 The historical dimensions leading to referendums on the sovereignty of Qu é bec -- 1.1.1 Referendum practices in Qu é bec and Canada prior to the debates on secession -- 1.1.2 The 1980 and 1995 referendums on Qu é bec sovereignty -- 1.2 The legal aspects allowing self-determination referendums in Canada -- 1.2.1 The absence of constitutional restrictions on holding referendums -- 1.2.2 Constitutional practices with respect to referendums. | |
505 | 8 | |a 2 Qu é bec's constitutional ability to declare its independence - An issue far less consensual -- 2.1 The activism of federal institutions -- 2.1.1 The Reference re Secession of Qu é bec and the conciliation of strongly diverging interests by the Supreme Court of Canada -- 2.1.2 The Clarity Act and the federal parliament's declaration that it was both party and judge in the constitutional dispute -- 2.2 The contemporary evolution of the debate and some unanswered questions -- 2.2.1 The threshold of the popular majority required for Qu é bec to declare independence -- 2.2.2 The ambiguity surrounding the duty to negotiate and the process of constitutional amendment -- Conclusion -- 5 Compromise or dislocation: federal alternatives to secessionist and centralizing temptations -- Introduction -- 1. Federalism in Spain -- 1.1 The federal projects of political parties in the central state -- 1.2 The federal projects of political parties at the regional level -- 2. Federalism and the right to self-determination -- Conclusion -- Notes about the Contributors -- Series index. | |
520 | |a The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism. The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, this issue has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one of the first to explore the complex relationship between federalism and secession. | ||
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590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
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