All Posts Tagged With: "secession"
Titles of Ignobility: Suicide as Secession
According to the World Health Organization, the United States stands 39th on the list of countries ranked by suicide rate. Despite this, nowhere else in the world is suicide so passionately medicalized and prohibited as in the United States. Why do people kill themselves? Because they are mentally ill, assert the mental health experts, a [...]
21Sep2011 | Thomas Szasz | 43 comments | ContinuedThe Question of Slavery
Slavery can neither fully explain nor ultimately justify the American Civil War. This realization is unfortunately obscured because most scholars and buffs alike have usually sought a single cause for those four years of soul-wrenching conflict. The early nationalist interpretation, put forward by historian James Ford Rhodes, blamed one factor and one factor only: slavery. [...]
23Mar2011 | Jeffrey Rogers Hummel | 21 comments | ContinuedParting Company Is an Option
My last essay in The Freeman, “How Did We Get Here?” (March), provided clear evidence that Congress and the White House, as well as the courts, had vastly exceeded powers delegated to them by our Constitution. To have an appreciation for the magnitude of the usurpation, one need only read Federalist 45, where James Madison, [...]
1Jun2004 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedSecession, State & Liberty
Herbert Spencer argued in a famous essay that individuals have a right to ignore the state. If so, it follows that a group of individuals also has the right to ignore the state, and enter into some new political arrangement if they choose. That is, they may secede. Although secession has had a bad press [...]
1Jun1999 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy It Matters
Professor Clites teaches at Tusculum College in Tennessee. Last November people in Quebec voted on whether to secede from Canada. Before the vote took place there was speculation in both Canada and the United States about how much harm such a pullout would do to Canada, to the United States, and to Quebec itself. With [...]
1Mar1996 | Roger M. Clites | 0 comments | Continued-
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