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To: Constant Reader who wrote (51714)	8/16/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Good questions. I've not been addressing HOW you secede until we hve some agreement on the basic principle of whether there should be a RIGHT to secede. My initial reaction is that it should be more difficult than a simple single majority vote. How much more difficult, though, I'm not at this point prepared to say. And in some cases the US has supported the partition of nations without even majority approval of the residents. (Look at the creation of Israel, for example). Not exactly a secesion case, but a self determination case. I don't know what the process was for the division of Czechslovakia, or for the breakup of the USSR. But they certainly set examples that the US could follow if it wished.