SECESSION AND THE MODERN STATE Donald W. Livingston, PhD.Department of PhilosophyEmory UniversityDecember 1996Secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy….(Lord Acton to Robert E. Lee, November 4, 1866) The idea of a modern unitary state goes back to the philosophers of the seventeenth century, but its first appearance
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