Table of Contents

1. The Secession Tradition in America 2. When is Political Divorce Justified? 3. The Ethics of Secession 4. Nations By Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State 5. Secession: The Last, Best Bulwark of Our Liberties 6. Republicanism, Federalism, and Secession in the South, 1790 to 1865 7. Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements Prior to the War Between the States 8. Was The Union Army's Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? An Analysis of President Lincoln's Legal Arguments Against Secession 9. The Economic and Political Rationale for European Secessionism 10. A Secessionist View of Quebec's Options 11. How to Secede in Business Without Really Leaving: Evidence of the Substitution of Arbitration for Litigation

About the Author

David Gordon is senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, available from Transaction, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics, and Critics of Marxism. He has contributed more than 100 articles to such journals as Analysis, The International Philosophic Quarterly, The Journal of Libertarians Studies, and The Review of Austrian Economics and is the editor of the Mises Review.