The Right to Secession: Remedial or Primary?

Secession and self-determination – Remedial Right Only Theory scrutinised

This paper analyses to what extent a 'remedial right' to secession, as suggested by Allen Buchanan's Remedial Right Only Theory, would be suitable for regulating secession of substate entities on an international platform. In doing so it will be argued that a number of problems would have to be addressed and ambiguities removed for a ‘remedial right’ to be realisable: firstly, the entity which ...

Education Vouchers: The Right to Choose or to Own?

Education Vouchers: The Right to Choose or to Own? M. H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Using education vouchers is one way of increasing parental access to schools and hence, creating rightful choices for them in regard to schools. Since such rights require governmental cooperation, it is necessary to delineate the boundaries of parental rights in order to clarify if the parents have s...

Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and the Right to Secession

Religious right or irreligious right

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Theories of Secession

All theories of the right to secede either understand the right as a remedial right only or also recognize a primary right to secede. By a right in this context is meant a general, not a special, right (one generated through promising, contract, or some special relationship). Remedial Right Only Theories assert that a group has a general right to secede if and only if it has suffered certain in...