Secession

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• Secession -- Alabama
• Secession -- Arkansas
• Secession -- Florida
• Secession -- Georgia
• Secession -- Kentucky
• Secession -- Louisiana
• Secession -- Mississippi
• Secession -- North Carolina
• Secession -- South Carolina
• Secession -- Southern States
• Secession -- Tennessee
• Secession -- Texas
• Secession -- Virginia

• A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at MOA)
• The Doom of Slavery in the Union: Its Safety Out of It, by John Townsend (page images at MOA)
• Is Davis a Traitor; or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?, by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at MOA)
• Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina (Raleigh: J. W. Syme, 1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861 and 1862, Together With the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, Etc. (Columbia, SC: R. W. Gibbes, 1862), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida, Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallahassee, on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861 (Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, 1861), by Florida Secession Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of the Public Proceedings of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860-'61, Together with the Ordinances Adopted (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in January, 1861; With an Appendix (Jackson, MS: E. Barksdale, 1861), by Mississippi Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial Day Annual, 1912: The Causes and Outbreak of the War Between the States, 1861-1865, For Use as a Source Book of Contemporary Authorities (Richmond: Virginia Department of Public Instruction, 1912) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida, at Called Sessions, Begun and Held at the Capitol in Tallahassee, on Tuesday, February 26th, and Thursday, April 18th, 1861, by Florida Secession Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rightful Remedy, by Edward B. Bryan (page images at MOA)
• The State of the Country: An Article Republished from The Southern Presbyterian Review (Columbia, S. C.: Southern Guardian Steam-power Press, 1861), by James Henley Thornwell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850, by Herbert Darling Foster, contrib. by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)

• The History and Debates of the Convention of the people of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery, on the Seventh Day of January, 1861: In Which is Preserved the Speeches of the Secret Sessions and Many Valuable State Papers, ed. by William Russell Smith, contrib. by Convention of the People of the State of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery, Ala.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama: with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, 1861), by Alabama (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Journal of Both Sessions of the Convention of the State of Arkansas (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• House Journals, by Florida House of Representatives (partial serial archives)

• Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted, by Georgia Convention of the People (1861 : Milledgeville and Savannah, Ga.)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky; Constitution of the Provisional Government; Letter of the Governor to the President; President's Message Recommending the Admission of Kentucky as a Member of the Confederate States; Acts of the Provisional Government Passed at Bowling Green (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863), ed. by J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson (page images at kyvl.org)

• Extracts from the Journal of the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Louisiana: Containing an Extract From the Address of the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese; Also, the Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, With the Resolutions Thereupon Adopted (New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861), by Episcopal Church Diocese of Louisiana, contrib. by Leonidas Polk
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in March 1861 (1861), by Mississippi Convention (1861)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at Google
• Proceedings of the Mississippi State Convention, Held January 7th to 26th, A. D. 1861, by Mississippi Convention (1861) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention (June, 1861), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina (1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So. Ca. to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States Together with the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina From the Federal Union; and, The Ordinance of Secession (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ordinances and Constitution of the State of South Carolina, with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America (1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Proceedings of a Meeting of Bishops, Clergymen, and Laymen, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States, At Montgomery, Alabama, On the 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th of July, 1861 (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee, by Hermann Bokum (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Christian Duty in the Present Time of Trouble, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• Public Acts of the State of Tennessee, Passed at the Extra Session of the Thirty-Third General Assembly, April, 1861 (Nashville: J. G. Griffith and Co., 1861), by Tennessee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Constitution of the State of Texas, as Amended in 1861; The Constitution of the Confederate States of America; The Ordinances of the Texas Convention: and an Address to the People of Texas (1861), by Texas (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Documents Submitted to the Convention of 1861 (53 documents (no document #39); ca. 1861), ed. by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of the Acts and Proceedings of a General Convention of the State of Virginia: Assembled at Richmond, on Wednesday, the Thirteenth day of February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One (Richmond: W. M. Elliott, 1861), by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance, by Gordon R. Smith and Moises Naim (HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Authority in the Modern State, by Harold Joseph Laski (PDF at McMaster)
• The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001; with supplementary research volume), by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (HTML at idrc.ca)
• Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (New Haven: Yale University Press, et al., 1917), by Harold Joseph Laski (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autonomy: Challenge and/or Solution, ed. by Vilmos Ágoston, trans. by Éva Lengyel, Iván Sellei, and Gabor Rózsa (HTML at Corvinus Library)
• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance, by Gordon R. Smith and Moises Naim (HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole
  • HTML in Australia
  • HTML at constitution.org
• The Social Contract, and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Authority in the Modern State, by Harold Joseph Laski (PDF at McMaster)
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2004), by David Graeber (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
• Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
  • HTML in Australia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Man Versus the State, by Herbert Spencer (text at McMaster)
• The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism, by L. T. Hobhouse (PDF at McMaster)
• Nation, State, and Economy, by Ludwig Von Mises, trans. by Leland B. Yeager (HTML at mises.org)
• The New State, by Mary Parker Follett (HTML at utk.edu)
• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)
• The Philosophical Theory of the State (second edition), by Bernard Bosanquet (PDF at McMaster)
• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
• The Rise and Fall of Society: An Essay on the Economic Forces That Underlie Social Institutions (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1959), by Frank Chodorov (PDF at mises.org)
• The Spirit of Laws, by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent and J. V. Prichard (HTML and text at constitution.org)
• The State, by Anthony De Jasay (HTML at econlib.org)
• State and Revolution, by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (HTML at marxists.org)
• The State and the Socialist Revolution (New York: International Review, 1938), by L. Martov, trans. by Herman Jerson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922), by Franz Oppenheimer, trans. by John M. Gitterman (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The State: Its Origin and Function (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1918), by William Paul (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Theory of the State (authorised English translation from the sixth German edition), by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, trans. by David George Ritchie, P. E. Matheson, and Richard Lodge (PDF at McMaster)

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