Secession and Self-Determination : : NOMOS XLV / / ed. by Stephen Macedo, Allen Buchanan.

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• MitwirkendeR: Brandon, Mark E.,; Buchanan, Allen,; Horowitz, Donald L.,; Levy, Jacob T.,; Macedo, Stephen,; Moore, Margaret,; Norman, Wayne,; Orentlicher, Diane F.,; Patten, Alan,; Rubio-Marín, Ruth,
• HerausgeberIn: Buchanan, Allen,; Macedo, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession and self-determination are the key issues that cause strife and instability. This volume provides an unusually comprehensive consideration of the many challenges of law and political philosophy that accompany them, and offers theoretical insights that provide guidance for policy. Among the questions considered are: should the international community recognize a right to secede and, if so, what conditions must be satisfied before the right can be asserted? Should secession and its conditions be recognized within domestic constitutions? Secession is the most extreme form of political separation and there are modes of self-determination short of it, including indigenous peoples' self-government and minority language rights. To what degree can these intrastate autonomy arrangements help ameliorate the injustices faced by indigenous groups?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. The Right to Secede -- 1. International Responses to Separatist Claims: Are Democratic Principles Relevant? -- 2. A Right to Secede? -- 3. Democratic Principles and Separatist Claims: A Response and Further Inquiry -- Part Two. Intrastate Autonomy -- 4. An Historical Argument for Indigenous Self-Determination -- 5. Indigenous Self-Government -- 6. Exploring the Boundaries of Language Rights: Insiders, Newcomers, and Natives -- 7. Can the Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy Be Defended? Comment on Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Part III. Constitutionalism and Secession -- 8. Domesticating Secession -- 9. The Quebec Secession Issue: Democracy, Minority Rights, and the Rule of Law -- 10. Secession, Constitutionalism, and American Experience -- Index