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    secession


    1. When slavery advocates called for secession, Taylor publicly threatened to hang them and they backed down


    2. True to his earlier beliefs though, Fillmore later opposed both secession and Emancipation


    3. What Calhoun is best remembered for today is his defense of slavery, secession, and states rights, three causes beloved by southern racists like Calhoun himself, their intellectual godfather


    4. aimed at increasing the numbers of voters of Hispanic background who will ultimately vote for secession of Southwestern states, including California, from the United States


    5. movement, once numbers for the vote for secession was achieved, wait for a soft


    6. And when Jesus came down from his sojourn on Mount Hermon, the Lucifer rebellion in Satania and the Caligastia secession on Urantia were virtually settled


    7. The most difficult section of the contract to negotiate had to do with the process of secession


    8. The majority of the process of secession is focused on the payment for or return of Federation assets and investments in the seceding party’s possession


    9. Under the terms on the contract, both parties agree to a non-aggression pact at the beginning of the secession process


    10. Ma’am, I take it by your comment that the Swordsmen have served notice that they wish to enter into secession negotiations

    11. The Swordsman secession negotiations stalled over the issues of repatriation of assets and personnel, distribution of refugees and the continued presence of the “underground railway” that left so many Swordsman males without suitable mates


    12. They are opposed to the secession negotiations


    13. That’s why they are so interested in concluding the secession negotiations while I am still in office


    14. If you use British Common Law as the basis for the statute, you can use it for justification for the Conservative position on the Swordsman secession


    15. He rushed us here with the intent of capturing you and your ship as a bargaining chip to get some of the provisions of the secession treaty changed


    16. Fortunately, the terms of the secession treaty, in fact of the Federation Charter itself, are very clear on this issue


    17. At the beginning of his Freshman year at the Academy, before the Swordsman secession, he had met her in the lounge of his dorm


    18. Still, the major powers, the Swordsmen and the Federation, had not faced each other since the Swordsman’s peaceful secession from the Federation


    19. When we negotiated the Swordsmen secession agreement, we reminded them that we let their soldiers live, and in return we asked that they let us live


    20. The attacks continued for a while after the secession agreement was signed

    21. Neither had faced the other in combat since the secession, although there were those in the Federation who wanted to reclaim the seceded territories by force and those in the Swordsmen military who wanted to vanquish the infidel Federation


    22. Other issues are bigger, but what if there is a conflict between a state and federal law? We know about the secession that brought about the Civil War, but there may have been one a half century before that


    23. He was inaugurated and greeted with the secession of the South from the Union


    24. South Carolina was soon followed by other slave states, and a war of secession began in 1861


    25. allow secession, which seemed to be a better option than war


    26. much to start the movementtoward secession from the mother country


    27. don’t understand what secession would really do to the


    28. Secession is not the answer for the South


    29. “So you believe, sir, that secession will mean war?”


    30. Secession is the only answer

    31. Long before the cry of secession had become an ac-


    32. “Oh, pooh! I hate all this talk about secession


    33. He would push the whole South into secession if he


    34. “All this wild talk of secession


    35. voice for secession have never owned a slave and never


    36. “having said all that, I believe secession would be dis-


    37. elected, if secession would not be justified


    38. where he would stand on Southern secession if the cot-


    39. on his way to cover the Secession Convention in South


    40. The voices for secession are growing loud, but

    41. up about secession before he arrived


    42. secession was supposed to wait has already been com-


    43. secession movement can be stopped


    44. have been told the act of secession will produce no op-


    45. B) A complete separation and secession of the West Bank


    46. For instance, special sessions were called by President Madison during the War of 1812, by President Lincoln to deal with the secession of the Southern states, and by President Roosevelt to reveal the first hundred days of the New Deal


    47. Secession, war—these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now she hated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and she would have no chance to to talk and hear themselves talk


    48. He should have He didn’t believe in secession and he hated the war and—”


    49. “I didn’t believe in secession,” said Ashley and his voice shook with anger


    50. We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization— The American Friends for Texas Secession


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    Synonyms for "secession"

    secession withdrawal sezession

    "secession" definitions

    an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s


    the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War


    formal separation from an alliance or federation