(1) The state legislature was soon to convene, with some of its members seeking to have the state secede from t he Union.

(2) The only way to prevent this would be to secede from the Union.

(3) If the Union is truly indestructible, then states cannot secede even if the national government is willing to let them go.

(4) Conversely, a claim of a right to secede from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate.

(5) The electorate votes on whether to secede from an existing nation and claim its independence for the entire world to see.

(6) Four out of the six provinces on the island of Madagascar have declared their intention to secede and form an independent entity.

(7) The chiefs, however, are now split along regional lines - with chiefs from western provinces threatening to secede .

(8) If Vermont or Southern California were to secede , a lot of us would join them.

(9) He has dramatically warned that if he is impeached a number of provinces will secede from Indonesia.

(10) In 1991, Germany gave Croatia and Slovenia the green light to secede from the Yugoslav federation; civil war soon followed.

(11) Many of the planets were run by makeshift despotic governments that intended to secede from the Republic.

(12) What was Abraham Lincoln's answer to Southerners who voted democratically to secede ?

(13) The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South secede and becoming an egalitarian social democracy.

(14) Before he had even taken the oath of office, several Southern states had seceded .

(15) The Southern ruling class seceded from the US in early 1861 to defend a social system built on the backs of destitute slaves.

(16) Sections of the army mutinied and the mineral rich province of Katanga seceded .

(17) Over the centuries, schisms occurred in which the seceders switched allegiance to Rome, forming the Uniate churches.

(18) Once these republics seceded , however, the legal status of minorities, such as the Serbs in Croatia, was undermined.

(19) When the state of Mississippi seceded , he withdrew from the Senate.

(20) On its disruption in 1884 he became head of the seceders , who organized themselves as the Socialist League, and was to lecture and write for the cause with great energy.