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Is Secession a Good Idea?

rd3 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 10:25 PM

It doesn't make much sense to me that in a country that came into being by declaring its independence from Britain, that the individual states that formed the new country should not also be able to declare their independence when the relationship is no longer beneficial.

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Al1997 Wrote: Oct 23, 2012 6:30 PM

Since our entire government is based upon the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution was written as a continuation of the Declaration then if a State wanted to declare independence it certainly could.

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Is Secession a Good Idea?

I’m not talking about secession in the United States, where the issue is linked to the ugliness of slavery (though at least Walter Williams can write about the issue without the risk of being accused of closet racism).

But what about Europe? I have a hard time understanding why nations on the other side of the Atlantic should not be allowed to split up if there are fundamental differences between regions. Who can be against the concept of self-determination?

Heck, tiny Liechtenstein explicitly gives villages the right to secede if two-thirds...