He laid the legal groundwork for the South to secede.
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In 1997 both tried to secede, asking to be recolonised.
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CALIFORNIA: Are you ready to secede from the United States?
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I have decided to secede from the Hall of Presidents.
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Trying to secede from the union over slavery: also worse.
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In response, South Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
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They threatened to secede from the Union if Republicans won.
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Each "nation, nationality and people" was given the right to secede.
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Very few redoubters, however, wish to secede from the United States.
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Like an August 2016 advertisement that advocated for Texas to secede.
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Another 17 communities are currently in the process of trying to secede.
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Eritrea proclaimed its independence from Ethiopia; Ethiopia did not secede from Eritrea.
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A ban on fossil fuels prompts parts of the South to secede.
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It looked like purple was trying to secede from the color spectrum.
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To begin a second civil war and force Florida to secede. Natch.
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Come on Texas we always threaten to secede, let's be a republic again!
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One chose 1860, the year Southern states began to secede from the Union.
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They admire "Old South" virtues and think that the southern states should secede.
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All three voted to secede from Spain in a referendum on Oct. 1.
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Not Winston: as Don Dodd, a local historian, records in his chronicle of the county, a resolution passed by a meeting at Looney's Tavern reasoned that if a state could secede from the Union, a county could secede from a state.
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It is highly unlikely that Vermont or New Hampshire will secede any time soon.
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In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh voted to secede from then-Soviet Azerbaijan and join Armenia.
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States in the Deep South voted to secede after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
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Other geo-centric ads tapped into Texas pride and called on Texans to secede.
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But now there is a movement in the Golden State to secede from the Union.
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A southern bid to secede failed in 1994 when the north restored unity by force.
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White—when the federal government shut down another one of the state's attempts to secede.
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In the early nineteen-nineties, Chechens overwhelmingly supported a secular movement to secede from Russia.
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The regional government in Catalonia is forging ahead with a plan to secede from Spain.
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Some demonstrators in Barcelona said the deadlock in Spanish politics was further reason to secede.
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And anyone installed by Madrid likely will be protested by those who want to secede.
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Instead of renouncing their hope for independence, the Catalan regional parliament declared it would secede.
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The North will look down at the chaos of King's Landing, say "no thanks," and secede.
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The Kurdish region of northern Iraq voted to secede from Iraq in a non-binding referendum.
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The lightning attack followed a referendum last month in which Kurds voted to secede from Iraq.
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But less than two months after the election, South Carolina voted to secede from the union.
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The fighting dates back to 1988, when Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians attempted to secede from Azerbaijan.
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Many in the south dislike the government, as well as the Houthis, and hope to secede.
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Purchase unsuccessfully tried to secede from Harrison in the 1960s and 1970s to control its growth.
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To the south, violence has spiked in the Biafra region, where separatists are pushing to secede.
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These were the so-called "silent majority" of voters who did not believe Catalonia should secede.
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They may secede or they may create that third party or they'd just have an unwieldy coalition.
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So, they're going to secede from Westeros and become a free territory once again — with her ruling.
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The Kurds overwhelmingly voted to secede in an independence referendum in September, which was opposed by Baghdad.
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Flemish separatists who seek to secede from Belgium have been longstanding allies of the Catalan independence movement.
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Talabani's death comes a week after Iraqi Kurds voted to secede from Iraq in a controversial referendum.
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Happy Wednesday and welcome back to Overnight Finance, where we pledge not to secede from The Hill.
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" It adds: "Let's remind them what Texas is made of and show that we're ready to secede!
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The October 1 referendum produced a lopsided result: 90 percent of voters voted to secede from Spain.
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Since 2000, 70 other communities have tried to secede from their district, according to the recent EdBuild report.
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Were Catalonia able to secede from Spain yet keep its existing trade relationships, leaving would look quite attractive.
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While he found sympathy for Catalan efforts to secede, only a minority there seem to see a model.
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Despite the violence, he says 21980 percent of the 210 million people who cast ballots voted to secede.
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Today in the state there is a quixotic but ambitious movement to have California secede from the union.
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They should secede from mainstream culture, pull their children from public school, put down roots in separate communities.
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A few months later, his replacement was dealt a blow when the island of Bougainville voted to secede.
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The wealthy northeastern region plans to hold a popular vote on whether it should secede from Spain on Oct.
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Hey, how about we start a movement for New York City to secede and become part of the E.U.?
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Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar has kept up his criticisms of Trump, calling for California to secede after the election.
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The History By a margin of 23 votes, residents of Glen Ridge voted to secede from Bloomfield on Feb.
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Representatives of the independence movement said they hoped that Mr. Puigdemont would follow through with his promise to secede.
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She hopes BRCA Sisterhood can use it to secede from Facebook and provide a model for other patient communities.
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"The first states to secede drew a straight line back to the Revolution," she said in a telephone interview.
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In 1850, he told Southern leaders who threatened to secede that he personally would lead the Army against secessionists.
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But it is not enough to placate hard-liners, who wanted Catalans to vote on whether to secede entirely.
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It's so proud that we've been threatening to secede from the US for a hell of a long time.
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Mississippi was the second state to secede from the U.S. — in whose Senate Hyde-Smith currently serves — in January 1861.
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The South Sudanese, who are mostly black African and non-Muslim, fought for half a century to secede from Sudan.
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Since 2000, more than 128 wealthy neighbourhoods have agitated to secede from school districts in an attempt to hoard resources.
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A few days earlier, huge pro-Spanish-unity rallies took place in Madrid and Barcelona, urging Catalonia not to secede.
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The Kurdish security forces report to an autonomous, parallel government in Erbil, which has often threatened to secede from Iraq.
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Could it be that the Australian government is so annoying people feel like they have no choice but to secede?
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The population is largely split in two between those who favor remaining part of Spain and those wanting to secede.
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A bias toward local action cannot be seen as an invitation to individual communities to selectively secede from the Constitution.
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Polls in Catalonia show a relatively even split between those who favor remaining in Spain and those wanting to secede.
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In a speech, he suggested California would secede and harshly criticized Senator John McCain and former President George W. Bush.
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Farther to the south, violence spikes from time to time in the Biafra region, where separatists are pushing to secede.
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On Twitter, for instance, Mr. Pishevar said he would fund a campaign to get California to secede from the nation.
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Some English speakers want to secede, but Cameroon's government has alleged used its military to tamp down that sentiment. 5.
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The Biafra movement, mainly made-up of Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria, fought to secede from Nigeria between 1967-70.
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After the presidential election, a proposal to secede from the union, driven by liberals and known as Calexit, gained attention.
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Some 11 years later, South Carolina would lead the Confederacy by becoming the first state to secede from the Union.
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If the Catalans secede, there'd be little to stop the Basques of Spain from trying to do so as well.
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In a letter encouraging Texas to secede and join the Confederate States, Louisiana Commissioner George Williamson was even more explicit.
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Opinion polls in Catalonia show a relatively even split between those who favor remaining in Spain and those wanting to secede.
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He said that Saudi Shiites should get their fair share of the country's oil and even suggested that they could secede.
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Only 43 percent of voters participated but those who did voted overwhelmingly to secede, while opponents of secession mostly stayed home.
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And if Brexit boosts the momentum for Scotland to secede from the UK, Britain would lose its only nuclear submarine base.
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Puigdemont appeared to admit the end of his attempt to lead Catalonia to secede from Spain and become an independent country.
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In 85033, he also reportedly praised Virginia's decision to secede from the United States at the onset of the Civil War.
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In 1988, ethnic Armenians voted to secede from Azerbaijan, and fighting broke out between the mostly Muslim Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.
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In more parallels with the 1860's we even have calls for states to secede from the United States, the Union!
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A group of California residents wants to secede from the United States and who can blame them after Tuesday's presidential election?
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In 2011, South Sudan voted to secede, becoming an independent country and taking with it three-quarters of Sudan's oil reserves.
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Center Point, which did not secede, has undergone a significant demographic shift as white residents fled to the districts that did.
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Seven ballot measures have been cleared for circulation, including one that will ask voters whether California should secede from the union.
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In her speech, Sturgeon will reiterate she will only seek to secede from the United Kingdom through a properly agreed referendum.
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In her speech, Sturgeon will reiterate she will only seek to secede from the United Kingdom through a properly agreed referendum.
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Along with the desegregation orders came court decisions ruling that districts could not secede in an effort to get around Brown.
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" The northeastern counties of California would like to secede from the state and establish their own right-wing state called "Jefferson.
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Catalonia's chaotic bid to secede from Spain took another turn on Monday when a judge denied bail to four pro-independence figures.
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Their offensive followed a referendum last month in which the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region voted to secede from Iraq against Baghdad's wishes.
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His comment had instead been "a plea and a warning that we might be led into war" by Bosnia's decision to secede.
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Rohrabacher has made headlines for his friendly outlook on Russia, and he supported the right of Crimea to secede from the Ukraine.
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This is Catalonia's most tangible investment in the institutional infrastructure needed for a fledgling state and highlights its government's determination to secede.
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Kentucky was a border state—it allowed slavery but did not secede—and Harlan began his career as a pro-slavery Unionist.
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Lincoln's argument was always that, since it was unconstitutional for states to secede on their own, the rebel states had never seceded.
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Then again, rational minds gave the same answer to the question of whether Britain would choose to secede from the European Union.
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The first referendum on whether Quebec should secede from Canada was in 1980; the "no" side won by nearly 20 percentage points.
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Meanwhile, Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he will not engage in talks unless Catalan leaders abandon their plans to secede.
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Resentments boiled over in 1993 when they voted by a margin of nearly two to one to secede from New York City.
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Jim Justice (R) encouraged Virginia counties unhappy with the Democratic-controlled government in Richmond to secede from the state and join his.
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Thankfully, the U.S. Constitution will make much of his rhetoric as difficult to implement as it is to secede from the Union.
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Some of the king's supporters have called for Ruwenzori to secede from Uganda and become a republic called Yiira, according to Col.
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Many opponents have taken to Twitter to remind Calexit backers that Texas already tried to secede in the past — and failed miserably.
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The latter operates virtually as an independent state and has for years sought to secede from Somalia, but has not won international recognition.
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How will this be affected if Scotland, whose people passionately wish to remain part of Europe, vote to secede from the United Kingdom?
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Hill is the leader of the secessionist and white nationalist group "League of the South," which calls for the American South to secede.
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Last year, an effort dubbed Calexit sought to bring the question of whether California should secede from the US to this year's ballot.
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A petition for Oregon to secede was filed with the Oregon secretary of state's office on Thursday, allowing backers to start gathering signatures.
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New Hampshire would still be subject to all federal laws and the limits they place on individual freedom—unless they secede, that is.
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I sometimes think Long Island should secede from New York to form a new state because NYS always spends LI/NYC money upstate.
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The Spanish government had no interest in allowing a legal referendum, leaving Catalonia with no other choice but to secede, Mr. Salellas added.
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But then, Catalan nationalists would argue, so did Quebec and Scotland, and they were allowed to hold referendums (and voted not to secede).
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So in 22016, the Catalan government called for an independence referendum, and even though turnout was low, voters opted to secede from Spain.
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For decades, many Catalans (as people from the region are known) have pushed to secede from Spain and create their own independent country.
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Following Virginia's vote to secede from the Union in the run-up to the Civil War, West Virginians broke off -- opposing the move.
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That's what some are calling a proposal for the state of Western Australia to secede over a long-running grievance about tax revenues.
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In the past two decades, dozens of affluent, mostly white communities have tried to secede from diverse school districts to form their own.
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I am not naïve enough to think it could ever happen, but many of us would just as soon secede from the union.
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James Bayard (D-Del.), believed states did have the right to secede and that seats held by Southern secessionists simply no longer existed.
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Back in 2014, Srinivasan made headlines because he was very vocal about his belief that Silicon Valley should secede from the rest of society.
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North and south Yemen united into a single state in 1990, but southern separatists tried to secede from the pro-union north in 1994.
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Both indices appeared on track for their biggest one-day percentage decline since June 24, after Britain voted to secede from the European Union.
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Californians who want their state to secede from the United States can now start collecting signatures to put the initiative on the 2018 ballot.
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Early on Monday, the Spanish government gave Catalonian leadership three days to declare whether it will try to secede from Spain and claim independence.
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The political deadlock in Madrid also comes as the Catalan regional government is pressing ahead with plans to secede from the rest of Spain.
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The ceremony here took place only after a unique and controversial push by Catalan lawmakers, many of whom now want to secede from Spain.
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Despite this repression, more than 90 percent of the voters on Sunday — more than two million people — in Catalonia voted to secede from Spain.
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The backlash from conservative Virginians has involved an armed march on the state capitol, and even schemes for counties to secede from the state.
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In 1933, 68 percent of the state — which had only signed on to the Australian federation reluctantly in the first place — voted to secede.
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So, look, if they secede from the Union and President Maxine Waters wants to make him the attorney general in California, more power to him.
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Enwonwu belonged to the Igbo ethnic group, the largest in the southeastern region of Nigeria, which had tried to secede under the name of Biafra.
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Enwonwu belonged to the Igbo ethnic group, the largest in the southeastern region of Nigeria that had tried to secede under the name of Biafra.
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"I'd load up my guns for the fighting if we could just secede and join Texas," said Ms. Moorhead from Loco Hills, population about 125.
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But the show seems so hesitant to secede power to Claire that it even wavers on giving her full control of the fourth wall breaking.
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Denmark's government, however, is less sanguine about a potential separation, even though it accepts that Greenland has the right to secede if it wants to.
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The report said the plan for the Golden State to secede from the union would require significant resources to gather signatures, including major financial backing.
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YesCalifornia, which is pushing for California to secede and become a separate country, staged a daylong "informational session" Wednesday outside the State Capitol in Sacramento.
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Yet no Iraqi government will ever willingly let Kurdistan secede with Kirkuk, as it too relies on oil revenue to fund its military and bureaucracy.
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A 2014 Reuters poll showed that only 20 percent of Californians wanted to secede; in 2017, after Trump's election, the number grew to 32 percent.
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Barzani's KRG, however, says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, but Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
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The establishment probably won the argument, if only on the ground of feasibility: barring unimaginable changes, China is never going to let Hong Kong secede.
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"Texas will never do that, because Texas loves me," he said, when asked how, as president, he would handle it if Texas tried to secede.
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He went on to talk about the trouble with racially interbred societies, the genetic basis of criminality, and his belief that the South should secede.
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Catalans are set to vote on whether to secede from Spain on Sunday, and the central government is vowing to block them from casting ballots.
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Amid confrontations between voters and Spanish police, only 43 percent of Catalans participated — but of those, more than 90 percent voted to secede from Spain.
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Meanwhile in Spain, a judge could rule today on whether to release on bail separatist leaders facing charges of rebellion over their efforts to secede.
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A separatist streak runs through the place: Venture capitalists periodically call for California to secede or shatter, or for the creation of corporate nation-states.
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The Education Issue What one Alabama town's attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.
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He argued that white communities should not be able to secede from districts placed under school desegregation orders in order to avoid integrating their schools.
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Mr. Odinga's followers threaten to secede from the country if his main demands — dialogue and a path to new elections this year — are not met.
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On the agenda is a motion to set up a committee to investigate "WAxit," the somewhat awkward moniker for the proposal to secede from Australia.
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Four years before, he had given a speech to the Bosnian Assembly threatening Muslims with "annihilation" if they voted to secede from the disintegrating Yugoslavia.
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A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the attempt by Gardendale to secede from the county had racial motives.
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However, the court said Tuesday that Gardendale could still secede in the future if it did not go against the Jefferson County Board's desegregation efforts.
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Two million voters in Catalonia, one of the wealthiest provinces in Spain, voted on Sunday to secede and create a new nation of their own.
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The conspirators had planned to invite 18 clubs to secede from their national divisions, in pursuit of the greater riches offered by an exclusive international franchise.
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In June of 1861, the state voted to secede from the Union, but couldn't, because it was occupied by Union troops and operating under martial law.
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Venture capitalist and Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar said he wants to help California to secede from the United States and a Donald Trump presidency.
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Tens of thousands of people have died in the armed revolt to secede from India that erupted in 1989 and has ebbed and flowed since then.
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The shock British vote in June to secede from the EU has chilled already tepid growth in the euro area and has shaken global financial markets.
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The Parlament de Catalunya voted through a motion on Friday afternoon calling for the Catalan government to secede fully from Spain to form a new republic.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, although Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
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The turmoil in Spain comes as politicians in the northeastern region of Catalonia are forging ahead with plans to secede from the rest of the country.
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For starters, its founder Paul Baron Neuman, claims he was inspired to secede after he was bestowed a royal title by King Hassan III of Afghanistan.
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Mike: Here's something that could make it worse: There's actually a movement by a handful of tech leaders to urge California to secede from the union.
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The separatist leader, Oriol Junqueras, is one of 12 people charged with rebellion and other crimes over Catalonia's failed attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
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In the latest "Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn't Miss," we look at foreign policy doctrine, whether California will secede and whether "humanitarian wars" exist.
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Spain's judiciary has maintained that the Constitution did not allow any region to secede, a position also taken by the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
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Under the agreement Ireland gave up its claim on the north and Britain agreed to a mechanism by which Northern Ireland could secede via a future referendum.
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Already tens of thousands of people have died in the armed revolt to secede from India that erupted in 1989 and has ebbed and flowed since then.
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Turkey will never allow the Kurdish chunk of the country to secede or let its fighters take over militarily as they tried to do in the 1990s.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government, however, says the referendum will give it a mandate for talks to secede from Iraq, although Baghdad has already ruled out such talks.
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With an economy larger than France, there is no doubt California could survive on its own, but would its population really want to secede from the Union?
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In neighboring Iraq, Kurds who voted to secede and the central government seem willing to de-escalate tensions, as neither side appears determined to force a crisis.
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By turns frustrating, enigmatic, unpredictable and combative, Mr. Puigdemont had become the embodiment of Catalonia's aspirations for independence after leading a thwarted effort to secede from Spain.
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Long before Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders sought to secede from Spain in recent months, Catalonia played a central and often turbulent part in Spanish politics.
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The latest salvo raises the possibility that Madrid could take over the economically vital region, which voted to secede in a referendum the central government deemed illegal.
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In June, the legislature of Texas Boys State — the mock-government exercise for high schoolers, run by the American Legion — voted overwhelmingly to secede from the union.
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Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, the Spanish region that includes Barcelona and where political leaders have been pushing for years to secede from the rest of Spain.
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"It has prevented the south from developing, fearing it will secede," says Saleh Alnoud of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), which speaks for many of the separatists.
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Maryland did not secede from the Union only because of the suspension of habeas corpus by President Abraham Lincoln and the selective jailing of the state legislature.
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First came marchers calling for the right to secede and protesting police violence, then came marchers in all white, asking for dialogue with the Spanish central government.
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California dreaming A Trump presidency is a no-go for a lot of Californians, so a movement for the state to secede from the US is gaining steam.
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Image 2 of 2 MADRID – Tension is gripping Spain, with the national government and Catalonia&aposs political leaders clashing over the wealthy region&aposs recent push to secede.
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Together, he quips, that old west-coast dream, popular again after the election of Donald Trump, would be within reach: "We could form our own country and secede."
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Even in the unlikely case that Republika Srpska could secede without a war it would be a tiny, poor and isolated country divided into two physically unconnected enclaves.
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Wardlow had opened his mouth and the words had leapt out: The Florida Keys would secede from the United States as an act of protest against the government.
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When the letter was written Gandhi was leader of the Indian National Congress, a political party that pushed for the sprawling country to secede from the British Empire.
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On the eve of the Civil War, the mayor of New York proposed that the city secede from the Union to protect its economic relationship with the South.
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A big jump in the tax rate this year revived calls for Black Rock to secede from Bridgeport and rejoin Fairfield, which it was part of before 1870.
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Qayoom, a supporter of separatist groups that want the region to secede from India, has been detained under the PSA in a jail in the country's capital New Delhi.
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Saudi authorities seemed especially enraged by his reported statements, as far back as 2009, that the kingdom's east might be entitled to secede if Shias were not better treated.
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Earlier this month, voters in the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia overwhelmingly approved a controversial referendum to secede from the country, though the consequence of the vote remains unclear.
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Just nine days after the referendum, on October 10, Puigdemont announced that the region had won the right to declare independence but stopped short of announcing Catalonia would secede.
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As it became clear most power was in northern hands, the old southern leadership tried to secede in 1994, but was swiftly beaten by Saleh's army, which sacked Aden.
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The leaders of Catalonia, the semiautonomous region that is home to Barcelona, were threatening to hold a referendum on the question of whether Catalans ought to secede from Spain.
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"As it is generally understood, there is no right to secede under international law," Chris Borgen, a law professor, wrote in 2014 for Opinio Juris, a legal scholarship site.
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If Puigdemont does not respond in time or confirms a will to secede, Rajoy can impose rule from Madrid, an option enshrined in article 155 of the 1978 constitution.
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Catalonia's president is under mounting pressure at home and internationally to drop plans to secede from Spain, ahead of a critical address to lawmakers where he could declare independence.
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According to those who were close to him at the time, he privately voiced desires to run for Congress — and for Idaho to secede from the Union (Regan denies this).
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The constitution created nine ethnically based, semi-autonomous regions, but also gave each of Ethiopia's more than 80 recognised groups the right to form its own region or to secede.
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Most Bosniaks and Croats opposed Sunday's referendum out of fear that the Serb Republic could be preparing to secede, destroying the delicate federal structure put in place after the war.
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Kentucky, the birthplace of both U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who led the Union, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, did not secede from the Union, but Kentuckians fought on both sides.
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Yet a government of the Socialists, Podemos and Ciudadanos would lack the votes to change the constitution, making it hard to resolve Spain's biggest looming problem: Catalonia's threat to secede.
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An Alabama judge made headlines in April 85033 for allowing a majority-white Alabama city to secede from a predominantly black county school system, though the decision was later reversed.
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Separatists in Cameroon have been pushing for English-speaking regions to secede for decades, arguing that they lack political clout in the government, which is centered in French-speaking areas.
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In Estremera, the village's economy was lifted a decade ago by the opening of a penitentiary, whose inmates now include Catalan politicians awaiting trial for trying to secede from Spain.
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In the show, "Confederate," the South does, indeed, secede from the Union, the Mason-Dixon line is a demilitarized zone and slavery is the law of the land below it.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday he would announce on Saturday measures to impose direct rule on the wealthy region of Catalonia over its bid to secede.
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An agreement brokered by Aung San and signed by several major ethnic minority groups granted minorities significant autonomy and the right to secede if they joined a post-independence federal union.
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Kerr responded to that Game 6 defeat to the Toronto Raptors by jokingly asking Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, to allow his team to secede from the league for one season.
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Leave by example The pro-independence message has found an echo in the Eastern Nigerian state of Biafra, where activists have launched a campaign for the majority-Igbo region to secede.
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But in her ruling, Judge Haikala still allowed Gardendale and its mostly white residents to secede from the Jefferson County District, as long as they followed a three-year desegregation plan.
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A decades-long battle between Monroe and K.J. ended in a referendum vote in November allowing the Hasidic village to secede, with a settlement giving it more than 200 annexed acres.
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As for the Civil War claim, many pointed to the nullification crisis of 1832-33, when Jackson threatened to invade South Carolina after it threatened to secede from the United States.
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Nigeria is in the grips of civil war, one very similar to the real Biafran War that ravaged the Igbo tribe in 1967-70 as they attempted to secede from Nigeria.
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Sessions, who gets his name from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, invoked the Civil War in reprimanding the state, accusing it of trying to nullify federal law and secede from the Union.
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Another aspirant who was sidelined is from the fledgling Hong Kong National Party, which calls for the city to secede from China and become a full-blown nation of its own.
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The region's small-r republicanism was a legacy of the Civil War, when most counties in the eastern third of the state voted to remain with the Union, rather than secede.
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Spain's escalating constitutional crisis hit a new peak on Friday, as Catalonia voted to secede and Spain's leader responded by firing the region's government, dissolving its parliament and ordering new elections.
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MADRID — Almost a year after failing to secede from Spain, the separatist politicians who govern Catalonia plan another show of force on Tuesday, with the celebration of the region's national day.
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The Spanish prime minister has offered Catalonia a referendum on greater autonomy, but he has firmly ruled out a new vote on independence or a unilateral attempt by Catalonia to secede.
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Esquerra's leader, Oriol Junqueras, is among the jailed politicians who are facing trial before the Spanish Supreme Court, charged with staging a rebellion during the botched attempt to secede in 2017.
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In an interview Sunday, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont reiterated his position that Catalonia will apply the recently passed law that calls for a declaration of independence if Catalans voted to secede.
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It aims to end the power struggle around Aden and defer the issue of whether the south will secede until after the battle against the Houthi-controlled north has been won.
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The content of the ads varies widely: one promotes a Bernie Sanders coloring book, while another screams that it's time for Texans to secede from the rest of the United States.
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The groups we hear about the most tend to have more understandable political goals, like installing an Islamist regime or winning the right for their region to secede from a country.
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And it falls in line with the increasing number of communities who, instead of moving, are using their political power to draw new school district boundaries and secede from the existing district.
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Italy's Constitutional Court threw out Zaia's original plan to ask voters if they wanted Veneto to secede from Italy or keep control of 80 percent of tax revenue collected in the region.
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Gardendale is wealthier and much whiter than the rest of Jefferson County — but eight other communities had managed to secede from Jefferson County District, so Gardendale was just the next in line.
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As such, the south - where many long wanted to secede from the north - is not included in peace talks mediated by U.N. negotiator Martin Griffiths as a party in its own right.
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Because no one knows who would form the government were Britain to secede from the EU, no one is in a position to say what form, if any, such laws would take.
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Despite being an autonomous province since 1972, giving it a greater level of self-determination - the region has a secessionist movement that would like to secede from Italy and reunify with Austria.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday that no region or province can secede, strengthening the government's hand as it seeks to prevent a repeat of September's Kurdish independence vote.
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The party is determined to secede swiftly, but disagrees profoundly with other separatists on how to then shape a new Catalan republic, starting with its rejection of the euro as a currency.
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Here's what you need to know: • In Catalonia, parties seeking to secede from Spain narrowly won an election called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who hoped to calm the country's constitutional crisis.
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He swept to victory when southerners tried to secede from united Yemen in 1994 and drew closer to Saudi Arabia, which he allowed to spread its radical Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam.
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She zeros in on an Alabama town that tried to secede from its school district, and what the ensuing court battle tells us about the fragile process of racial integration in America.
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Here's what you need to know: • A Spanish judge ordered prison without bail for eight former members of Catalonia's regional government pending trial on charges including rebellion over their efforts to secede.
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It is unclear, in particular, how much influence the United States has with Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani after already failing to delay the independence referendum, in which the Kurds voted to secede.
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In 2019 Bougainville, a large but poor island that long waged a separatist battle against PNG's central government, will hold a referendum on independence; few would be surprised if it voted to secede.
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In the flurry of election-related posts to hit your News Feed last year, did you happen to scroll past ones that mentioned the "Islamization of Texas" or calls for Texas to secede?
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News Analysis MADRID — If it appeared for a moment that Catalonia's drive to secede from Spain would implode along with the political fortunes of its leader, it has not turned out that way.
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I think it was Queen City Jazz, where it's basically like a giant raft city, where they just float out into the gulf and secede from all the other stuff that's going on.
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Calls for California to secede from the U.S. — fyi, we'll need a lot more firepower than what comes from servers to do that — come only because figuring out what's next is really hard.
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The United States is among several global players that have publicly opposed the Kurdish vote to secede from Iraq, with regional powerhouses Turkey and Iran saying they'll halt trade with the Kurdish region.
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A four-minute video of the 2010 gathering from the Montgomery Advertiser features attendees repeatedly arguing that the South was fighting for freedom in the Civil War and had a right to secede.
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Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart, who has come under fire for supporting white nationalists, in a 2017 speech praised the state's decision to secede from the United States at the Civil War's outset.
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The Yes California Independence Campaign hopes to place an initiative on California's 2018 ballot that would call for a special election to decide whether the state should secede to form its own country.
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Buchanan threatened to read Douglas out of the party, turning to the example of President Andrew Jackson decades earlier during the Nullification Crisis, in which South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union.
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Sudan has been gripped by a deep economic crisis that began in 2011 after the southern half of the country voted to secede, taking with it three-quarters of the country's oil output.
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That court had been friendly to towns trying to secede, and the new school board apparently considered the desegregation order so inconsequential that it did not inform its new superintendent that it existed.
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A decisive 65% of them voted to secede in 1993, but the bid was blocked by New York's state assembly, which ruled that such an instruction needed to come from the city's mayor.
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The 1995 constitution redefined Ethiopia as a federation of more than 80 "nations, nationalities and peoples" (ie, ethnicities), each with the right to form its own semi-autonomous state or to secede altogether.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
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They are facing prison sentences of up to 25 years if convicted on charges of staging a rebellion during the botched attempt to secede unilaterally from the rest of Spain in October 2017.
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Spain: Twelve people went on trial for their roles in Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is scrambling to keep the issue from toppling his leadership.
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South Sudan, roughly the same size as a unified Darfur, fought the north through decades of civil war until a 2005 peace deal gave it the right to a referendum on whether to secede.
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The Catalan administration was also dismissed, and senior lawmakers have been arrested and charged with sedition, rebellion, and misuse of funds for their alleged role in the bid to secede, prompting large public protests.
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Bannon also took aim at the Silicon Valley and its "lords of technology," predicting that tech leaders and progressives in the state would try to secede from the union in 10 to 15 years.
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Spain asks Catalonia whether it actually plans to secede; the synthetic opioid fentanyl is now killing more people than any other drug; LSU is the setting of the latest suspected death from fraternity hazing.
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Spanish prosecutors want to sentence Mr. Junqueras to 25 years in prison on charges of rebellion and other crimes for helping lead Catalonia's failed attempt to secede in 2017 after staging an unconstitutional referendum.
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The president was Andrew Johnson, a Tennessean who had been invited onto Abraham Lincoln's ticket in 1864 because he had been the sole senator from a Confederate state who did not secede with it.
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Esquerra's leader, Oriol Junqueras, is among a group of politicians who have been held in prison while they stand trial, charged with rebellion and other crimes during a botched attempt to secede in 2017.
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After taking office in June, Mr. Sánchez sought to renew the political dialogue with the governing pro-independence politicians in Catalonia, after their botched attempt to secede in 2017, a move that was unconstitutional.
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ROME — The citizens of two northern Italian regions voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of greater autonomy in closely watched referendums that come on the heels of Catalonia's tortuous attempts to secede from Spain.
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon warned Friday that California may attempt to secede from the United States in the next decade if Republicans do not attempt to reassume control of the state.
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His comments come after former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon warned California may try to secede from the U.S. in the next decade if Republicans don't attempt to reassume control of the state.
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But that's not the only thing you need to understand about the Catalan drive to secede from Spain, which is expected to lead to a formal (if likely ineffectual) declaration of independence on Tuesday.
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Hyslop confirmed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's intention to look again at a push to secede from the UK once London and Brussels have struck an outline accord late this year on a post-Brexit relationship.
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Mr Bashir had unleashed genocide in the western region of Darfur, his violent oppression drove the southern third of his vast country to secede, and he presided over a regime of exceptional cruelty and avarice.
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MADRID, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said on Thursday he was a political prisoner and insisted his region had the right to secede from Spain.
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In that village soldiers terrified civilians by burning houses and shooting indiscriminately as part of a crackdown on militias that want the primarily English-speaking areas of Cameroon to secede from the predominantly Francophone country.
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Tammy Blair, the chairwoman of the Republican Party in nearby Cherokee County, said there were differing definitions of extreme, adding that she was sympathetic to the movement to have Texas secede from the United States.
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It also comes less than two years after Catalan separatist parties made an unsuccessful attempt to secede unilaterally from Spain, following an unconstitutional referendum that was marred by clashes between the Spanish police and voters.
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And this is largely true — and part of the state's history, as it was one of a handful of states where slavery was legal but that didn't secede from the Union in the Civil War.
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About two-fifths of voters participated in the poll, but 90 percent of participants voted to secede, according to the Catalan authorities, a result that Mr. Puigdemont said gave the region a mandate for independence.
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The roots of the crisis lie in Ethiopia's constitution, which created nine ethnically based, semi-autonomous states, but gave each of Ethiopia's more than 80 ethnic groups the right to form its own state or secede.
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In addition to being a leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, Edmund Pettus was a general in the Confederate army, which sought to secede from the Union in order to maintain the system of slavery.
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In contrast, venture capitalist and Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar told CNBC before the results were in that he wants to help California to secede from the U.S. in the event of a Trump win.
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After two years of circuitous negotiations, London largely granted the restive Anguillans' request to secede from the federation with St. Kitts and Nevis and return to the mother country as a representative democratic dependency of Britain.
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Opinion IN the wake of the presidential election, as Democrats realized that Republicans will soon control all three branches of the federal government, progressives disinclined to secede from the Union rediscovered another exit strategy: states' rights.
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The south last attempted to secede in 1994, but the movement was crushed by a Saleh-led coalition that included jihadist returnees from Afghanistan, some of them linked to the then little-known Osama bin Laden.
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At the Texas Republican Convention here, state delegates met and struck a resolution from being added to the party's platform that endorses the idea of a referendum for Texans to vote to secede from the United States.
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MADRID — The Catalan separatist parties on Saturday reached an 11th-hour agreement to replace the leader of the region, Artur Mas, and avoid new elections that risked derailing Catalonia's push to secede from the rest of Spain.
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He studied in Iran and Syria, but rose to prominence for fiery sermons after his return in which he criticized the ruling family and called for Shiite empowerment, even suggesting that Shiites could secede from the kingdom.
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The deep divisions between pro-unity Spaniards and secessionists in Catalonia were highlighted on Tuesday with the start of a trial of 12 separatists charged with rebellion following an attempt in October 2017 to secede from Spain.
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The Estelada flag has taken on particular importance in recent years as Catalan separatist parties, which now hold a majority of seats in the regional Parliament, forge ahead with plans to secede from the rest of Spain.
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But voters in the Upper South were less enthusiastic about leaving the United States and did not agree to secede until after Lincoln issued a call for troops to put down the rebellion of Deep South states.
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Oddly, the Texan who staked his name on the cause — the former Larry Scott Kilgore, who legally changed his name to Larry Secede Kilgore and plans to run for governor in 2018 — has not tweeted a word.
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Pishevar, a Democratic donor, was also a supporter of a movement for California to secede from the U.S. — another position that, according to his lawsuit, Definers allegedly used in a bid to illustrate the investor's Russia connections.
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For more than two weeks, Mr. Puigdemont and Mr. Rajoy had engaged in a game of chicken over whether the Catalan leader was ready to secede unilaterally, following a confusing address to the Catalan Parliament on Oct.
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There were a couple of auditory puns: I liked SECEDE at 1D (remembering that "germ" can mean an idea, or seed, as well as an infectious agent) and HAIRPIECE at 13A (remembering that "quiet" can mean peace!).
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Crazy thought: If California were to secede, there could instantly be up to 280 million new people having to knock on the door and seek visas from the sixth largest economy and newest nation in the world!
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A group of Republican state legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure Thursday that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government began to seize legally purchased firearms in the state.
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The bill, which was referred to the state House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, would allow South Carolina lawmakers to debate whether to secede from the United States if the federal government were to violate the Second Amendment.
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The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king&aposs army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the declaration.
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Yet today, gazing at tourist shops full of Confederate battle flags, replica guns and souvenir T-shirts with slogans like "If At First You Don't Secede, Try, Try, Again", visitors to Gettysburg might suppose that the Confederates won.
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Even if it were to secede with Spain's consent, an independent Catalonia would be cut off from the rest of Europe, possibly facing barriers to the movement of people and goods, perhaps even ejected from the euro zone.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A prominent strategist for Kenya's opposition who has strongly criticized President Uhuru Kenyatta and called for some parts of the country to secede was released on Monday after being briefly detained on suspicion of inciting violence.
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In the decades after the war, a number of Southern historians began to write that slaveholders were noble and had the right to secede from the Union when the North wished to interfere with their way of life.
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"South Carolina had committed to secede if Abraham Lincoln wins, his winning was assured, Wall Street was in a panic, but the Prince of Wales was actually on the cover of Harper's Weekly five times in six weeks."
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In the wake of Donald Trump's stunning victory in the presidential election, there's a growing movement among liberals in California for the state to secede from the United States —a so-called "Calexit," after the UK's own Brexit.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Donald Trump should lay off talking about the break-up of the European Union, the bloc's chief executive said on Wednesday, pointing out that Europeans do not push for Ohio to secede from the United States.
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As the government's desire to secede from Spain grows, so does its determination to enforce Catalan as the region's only official language, says Francisco Caja, president of Convivencia Civica Catalana, an association which offers legal advice on linguistic issues.
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Falwell said lawyers told him that in order to secede, there would need to be petition drives in the counties and then a referendum, according to the AP. If the referendum passed, it would go before Virginia's General Assembly.
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According to an advisor to the U.S. government on Yemen, the U.S. has not considered the longer-term implications of indirectly supporting southern separatists, and has not done any contingency planning for a move by the south to secede.
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Johnson, speaking to reporters in New York and the United Nations headquarters, also said Britain has been approached by several countries interested in trade deals after U..K voters chose last month in a referendum to secede from the European Union.
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Johnson, speaking to reporters in New York and the United Nations headquarters, also said Britain has been approached by several countries interested in trade deals after UK voters chose last month in a referendum to secede from the European Union.
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At least 58 people in Las Vegas are dead after the nation's deadliest mass shooting in recent history; tensions are high in Spain after Catalonia votes to secede; three US scientists win the Nobel Prize for their discoveries on circadian rhythms.
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"We would love to see official numbers on nationwide support for Calexit," he said, adding that, "on a constant basis ... people [are] emailing how they want California to secede, or as they put it: break off and fall into the ocean."
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Credit rating agency S&P said that while it did not it expect Catalonia, a wealthy region that borders France, to secede from Spain, protracted tensions between Madrid and Barcelona could have a negative impact on the country's economic growth outlook.
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Scotland's government wants a special deal to stay in the single market or, if not, to secede and stay in or rejoin the EU. Ireland's EU commissioner has espoused the idea of keeping Northern Ireland in the EU customs union.
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MADRID — After listening to 422 witnesses in four months, the Spanish Supreme Court on Wednesday closed the trial of 12 leaders of the Catalan independence movement accused of staging a rebellion during their botched attempt to secede from Spain in 2017.
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Bashir's trial will be a test of how serious the country's transitional military council is about trying to erase the legacy of Bashir, ousted in April after 30 years of autocratic rule that saw South Sudan secede and the economy deteriorate.
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Mr. Fenna said the person who might take the biggest hit from all of this is Prime Minister Turnbull, who is expected to attend and address the party conference where the motion for Western Australia to secede will be heard.
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Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia secede to form the Free Southern State; South Carolina, which led the revolt, is encased by a massive wall after the federal government unleashes the first of the novel's two plagues to tamp down the rebellion.
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Research from EdBuild, an education nonprofit that highlights disparities in school funding, shows that 128 communities in states like Maine, Alabama, and Utah have attempted to secede since 2000, 73 of them have been successful while another 17 efforts are ongoing.
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Many of the same countries that welcomed Slovenia and Croatia, and went to war to help Kosovo secede, and that compete for the title of best friend to a new Palestinian state, act as though Catalonia is trying something unheard of.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's leading academic sees Scottish independence from Britain as inevitable, but believes it will be a slow process and not even a vote in June for Britain to leave the European Union would trigger immediate moves to secede.
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While the city government declined to disclose a reason, it appeared to be in response to the journalist hosting a talk with Andy Chan, the leader of a small political party that calls on Hong Kong to secede from China.
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When he compares Robert E. Lee to George Washington, he's sure to thrill the hearts of people who believe the Confederacy was morally right to secede from the United States of America, and that the horrors of slavery are overblown at best.
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Sudan has been gripped by a deep economic crisis that began in 2011 after the southern half of the country voted to secede, taking with it three-quarters of the country's oil output, and has been aggravated by years of overspending and mismanagement.
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North and south Yemen united into a single state in 1990, but when separatists tried to secede from the pro-union north in 1994, their forces were swiftly beaten, and more power and resources flowed to the northern capital of Sanaa, angering many.
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In a new clip from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, an animatronic Abraham Lincoln threatens to "secede" from Disney's Hall of Presidents due to the planned addition of a moving, speaking animatronic Donald Trump, expected to join the attraction in late 2017.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Two more jailed Catalan separatist leaders awaiting trial for their role in the region's failed bid to secede from Spain joined a hunger strike started two days ago by two of their companions to protest against their treatment by Spanish courts.
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Jamie Dornan ("Fifty Shades of Grey") plays the commandant leading a small Irish force of United Nations peacekeepers that was besieged in 1961 in the Democratic Republic of Congo by several thousand local troops from Katanga Province, which was seeking to secede.
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In "American War" (Knopf), Omar El Akkad traces the United States' descent from gridlock to barbarism as the states of the former Confederacy (or, at least, the parts that aren't underwater) refuse to abide by the Sustainable Future Act, and secede in 20113.
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Mr. Dodik, whose security forces have been stocking up on weapons and recently purchased 2,500 automatic rifles for the police forces, insisted that he did not want violence and wanted the Republika Srpska to secede peacefully from Bosnia and join the European Union.
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A few years later, when Milošević launched a violent campaign against separatists in Serbia's ethnic-Albanian province of Kosovo, NATO intervened fast and hard with an air campaign, pushing out the Serbian Army and clearing the way for the Kosovars to secede.
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For days, anticipation had been building that Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader, would use his address before the Catalan regional Parliament to officially proclaim independence from Spain, after a week of informal suggestions that Catalonia had the right to secede following an Oct.
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While these movements will not succeed -- or secede -- they speak to a broader truth about our current culture: There is an increasing desire to only live around/work around/be around only people who share the same political beliefs as you do.
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On Sunday the citizens of the Catalonia region will vote on whether to secede from Spain – provided that the Spanish state, which has already arrested leaders of the referendum and confiscated voting materials, does not carry out threats to block all voting stations.
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"I know this issue has had a lot of discussion recently, but there is no established method or procedure for counties to secede from the Commonwealth," Jeff Sharp, a senior attorney with the Virginia General Assembly, said in an email to CNN.
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In October, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced Mr. Junqueras and eight other former Catalan leaders to prison for their involvement in a botched attempt to secede from Spain in 2017, after holding an independence referendum that had been declared unconstitutional by Spanish courts.
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In late January, speaking in the Russian city of Stavropol, Vladimir Putin denounced Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin for, as Putin put it, placing an "atomic bomb" under the foundations of the Soviet Union by nationality policies that allowed non-Russians the right to secede.
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Your arguments about why Scots should reject independence amounts to saying that Scotland would face the very same perils if it were to secede from the United Kingdom that the UK faces when it leaves the European Union ("Leave one union, lose another", March 22012th).
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While shifting national politics played out in Tuesday's midterm election, a local Georgia fight raged on over whether part of a city could secede to form its own, wealthier municipality... and perhaps gain a coveted chain restaurant with avocado egg rolls in the process.
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Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state chapter's League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the US and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
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Though Mr. Iriondo still hopes for greater autonomy for the region, he does not want Basque separatists to follow their counterparts in Catalonia, whose parliament voted on Friday to secede from Spain, prompting the Spanish government to take administrative control of Catalonia hours later.
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" To all the people who have come to him over the years looking for advice on how to secede, what to do, and how to start (California and Texas take note!), he simply says, "First thing you gotta do is be a little crazy.
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It's not the first time Texas has tried to wriggle its way out of the US. Fringe movements have been crusading for the cause since 1869, causing the Supreme Court to step in and rule that states actually don't have the right to secede.
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But the election also took place amid a continuing territorial conflict in the northeastern region of Catalonia and a landmark trial of separatist politicians from the region who were charged with rebellion and other crimes during a botched attempt to secede unilaterally in 2017.
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Voters in Spain's prosperous Catalonia region will be asked to choose in less than a month if they want to secede from Spain, the region's pro-independence ruling government announced Wednesday in a move that puts it in open defiance of central authorities in Madrid.
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Hostility deepened this month after Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, again threatened that the Serb region might secede from Bosnia in a row over the Constitutional Court, and called on Serb officials to block the work of national institutions.
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The Spanish Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling by mid-October in the landmark trial of 12 former separatist leaders of Catalonia, who have been charged with rebellion and other crimes during a botched attempt to secede unilaterally from Spain in 2017.
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"If you do not roll this back ... 10 or 15 years from now the folks in Silicon Valley and the progressive left in this state are going to try to secede from the Union," Bannon told a group of college Republicans in Anaheim, Calif.
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Nicoletti, a legal historian who said she was surprised to find her subject of expertise relevant once again, explains that while the issue of a state's legal right to secede may have played out on the battlefield when the North defeated the South, Texas v.
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The man at the center of the political crisis ripping apart Spain has just attempted to pull off the impossible: both declaring that his native Catalonia has the right to secede from Spain and then immediately making clear that he wouldn't actually be seceding.
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A court packed with progressives who reverse the 2008 decision overturning Washington, DC's handgun ban, or find a constitutional right to equally funded public education, for instance, would likely find its decisions met with resistance in dozens of states, which might refuse to comply or even secede.
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My grandfather was so sure that Texas was going to secede from the Union in the 40s, he made all of the pregnant women in my family stay in Texas so that the babies can be born here and be citizens of Texas, not the Union.
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Why it matters: The political instability from Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain had real consequences for its economy — and it could continue as exiled former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who led the independence movement, hopes to return to office at the end of the month.
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The biggest issue in campaigning for the April 28 vote has been Madrid's handling of Catalan discontent that led to the 2017 plebiscite and an ultimately abortive attempt to secede from Spain, with right-of-center parties calling for tougher action against the Catalan government in Barcelona.
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Since those protests failed to achieve their goals, some of the activists involved have taken a harder line, going so far as to demand that Hong Kong be allowed to secede from China — an idea Beijing views with anathema, as Mr. Zhang's remarks on Thursday emphasized.
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Deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and several members of his pro-independence administration traveled to Brussels in Belgium on Monday and hired a lawyer, fueling speculation that they could try to seek asylum there in order to avoid possible prison sentences for trying to secede from Spain.
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For these reasons, the leaders of the Kurdish and Catalonian separatist movements might do well to take step a back from the precipice of partition and seek a political solution to addressing their grievances while remaining part of the country from which they seek to secede.
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Not until Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all fracture off from England -- not as absurd-sounding a proposition as it was 20 years ago -- and not until pro-EU London tires of Brexit and votes to secede from England will Great Britain's greatness truly be spent.
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It is one thing when Vermont threatens to secede, but quite another when Britain quits the EU. And that is the question to a third Clinton administration: Will America — especially the red states — go quietly into the good night, will they accommodate, or will they resist?
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" (Abraham Lincoln invoked the same argument in denying the South's power to secede from the Union.) In an opinion echoing Washington's Farewell Address, which had defined the United States as "one people," Marshall wrote an eloquent paean to national unity: "In war, we are one people.
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A lot of the content had to do with gun rights, veterans issues, patriotism, feminism, and even the movement to have California secede from the US. It's very likely, though, that the IRA aimed to stoke divisions based on those issues in part to influence the election.
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Memo from Lombardy MILAN — Catalonia has been racked by sound and fury over a drive to secede from Spain, but on a recent morning in Lombardy, which will vote on Sunday on whether to demand greater autonomy from Italy, the mood was distinctly more laid back.
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After winning the election in 1989 with just over 50 percent of the vote, he lost in 1993 with just below 50 percent, a difference often attributed to a surge in voter turnout in Staten Island, where voters had a ballot initiative to secede from the city.
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With such a resounding vote for self-determination, Bougainville has become a visible inspiration for other independence movements in the Pacific, from West Papua, which is seeking to secede from Indonesia, to New Caledonia, which will hold a referendum next year about possibly breaking away from France.
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But their success edged the country closer to a different kind of destabilization: It gave hope to many southern Yemenis who have long wanted to secede from the rest of the country and reinstate the north-south border that divided Yemen until its unification in 1990.
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There was also concern that a border adjustment or partition would empower others in the region to try to adjust borders, in particular Milorad Dodik, the Serb nationalist leader in Bosnia who has urged Bosnian Serbs to secede — and who won a presidency seat in elections earlier this month.
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One sign of hope for the Remain campaign: Most polls before the September 2014 referendum on whether Scotland should secede from the United Kingdom showed that contest to be neck-and-neck, but voters broke fairly decisively — 55.3 percent to 44.7 percent — in favor of the status quo.
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — The Chinese government's top lawyer in Hong Kong said on Tuesday that British colonial legislation could be used to prosecute those advocating that the territory secede from China, but he also said that mainland Chinese security agencies have no authority to detain suspects in Hong Kong.
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Australian governments have raised concerns about human rights violations by Indonesia's military, especially during the invasion and occupation of East Timor by Indonesia in the 1970s, and violence alleged to have been committed by Indonesian troops and pro-Indonesian militias after East Timor's vote in 1999 to secede.
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Bosnian voters elected longtime Serbian nationalist Milorad Dodik to a national presidential post Sunday, a result likely to increase tensions between the Serb Republic of Bosnia and the international community over Dodik's close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his repeated calls for the Serbian statelet to secede from the Bosnian state.
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Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia — one of Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.
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The corruption headache comes days after Mr. Rajoy won some reprieve from Basque nationalist lawmakers, who used their pivotal votes to back his government's next budget despite an earlier pledge to withhold support until Mr. Rajoy's government ended the direct rule it imposed on Catalonia after the region tried to secede last year.
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The judge in the case, Sam Pointer, had replaced Lynne, and in a 1971 order Pointer allowed the white communities to secede but forced them to bus in black children from other areas to maintain a ratio of at least one black child for every three white children in the new district.
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Dinkins carried Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, while Giuliani dominated heavily white areas of Queens and depended for his margin of victory on a thumping performance in Staten Island — a place with a very suburban vibe that voted the very same day in favor of a referendum to secede from New York.
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When the action thriller "Bushwick" premièred, at Sundance, during the same week as Donald Trump's Inauguration, its plot seemed like a fanciful nightmare, in a "Red Dawn" kind of way: an army of militiamen from Southern states, hoping to secede from the Union, invades the transitional Brooklyn neighborhood, bringing black helicopters and automatic weapons.
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"In the wake of the presidential election, as Democrats realized that Republicans will soon control all three branches of the federal government, progressives disinclined to secede from the Union rediscovered another exit strategy: states' rights," Jeffrey Rosen, the president and chief executive of the National Constitution Center, wrote in December, 2016 in a New York Times opinion.
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But they enveloped their activities — mainly visits to churches and drinking sessions with local nationalist hot heads — in such secrecy that they stoked concern over what Russia is up to in Bosnia, a rickety state backed by the West but undermined from within by the Republika Srpska, which covers about half its territory and wants to secede.
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She wrote about the testimony of one North Smithfield parent who said it felt bad that Gardendale wanted to exclude children from her community, until they found out that they had to include them, if they wanted to secede, and that she feared North Smithfield children would be scrutinized and treated like outsiders in the new system.
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READ: Black man faces felony charge after defending himself against neo-Nazis Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state's chapter of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the U.S. and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
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The leaders of Calexit have announced a new version of their plot to create an independent California: All federal lands in California will be returned to the Indian tribes, creating The co-founder of a movement calling for California to secede from America -- after giving away nearly half the state to form an "autonomous Native American nation" -- suggested Wednesday that Massachusetts Sen.
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At a time of tribalism and polarization, culminating in threats by the states to nullify federal laws and secede from the Union, Marshall's central idea, shared with his Federalist heroes George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, was that "we the people" of the United States as a whole are sovereign and united, as opposed to "we the people" of the individual states.
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Jackson, a slave owner who believed in the use of force if necessary to preserve the Union, did not live to see the Civil War, but Mr. Trump may have been thinking of the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33, when Jackson threatened to send troops after South Carolina declared tariffs imposed by the federal government null and void and threatened to secede.
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Almost immediately, the white citizens of the state, more so than the white students who actually attended the college, clung to it as a sign that even in the most liberal bubble North Carolina had to offer, the state's history as the final one to secede from the Union and fight on the side of slavery would not be forgotten.
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In 2009, the small territory, which was formerly part of the Comoros Islands, voted in a referendum to secede from its geographic neighbors, but it would take another five years for the territory of roughly 212,000 people to officially become an "integral territory" of the EU. Titled "Kwassa Kwassa" (63), the video is the most emotionally powerful of the sixth Marrakech Biennale.
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Liberal whites on the Upper West Side of Manhattan went into mass panic mode over a school integration plan in 2018; a semi-accidental influx of black students into a white school in the suburbs of St. Louis in 2015 provoked a massive backlash; and a major trend in recent years has been for affluent areas to secede and form their own school districts to preserve homogeneity.
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Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup MORE (D-Va.), defended Virginia's move to secede while making a campaign appearance for his failed attempt to become governor, according to Facebook video first reported by CNN's KFile.
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This line of thinking explains, in a way, how Texas conservatives saw no hypocrisy when Mr. Perry suggested in 2009 that the state might secede over profligate Washington spending, but bitterly complained four years later when the Obama-era Federal Emergency Management Agency declined to pay for all of a disaster recovery effort after a fertilizer plant exploded in the city of West, Tex.
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How white supremacists got the black man they brutally beat charged with felony How white supremacists got the black man they brutally beat charged with felony Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state's chapter of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the U.S. and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates noted in the Atlantic, South Carolina, the first state to secede, said in its official statement that it saw any attempts to abolish slavery and grant rights to black Americans as "hostile to the South" and "destructive of its beliefs and safety": A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.
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