Montclair -- a suburb of 39,000 residents that is considered to be sedate, racially integrated and unquestionably hip--is moving to secede from Essex County, forming an unlikely alliance with Millburn, Roseland and a band of other communities in turmoil over county taxes.
Some have suggested that Parliament simply move to secede like South Carolina and dare the EU to sue the UK for damages or whatever other remedy would be imposed on a renegade member walking away from its obligations.
He said that most residents of Aceh, where rebels are fighting to form an independent Islamic state, want to remain part of Indonesia and that the government would crush any moves to secede.
While some of Montclair's residents revel in the town's reputation as an island of urban leftism in an ocean of suburban centrism, property taxes have inspired a move to secede from Essex County.
One good reason for not doing so is that, unlike now-homogeneous Chechnya, Dagestan is a combustible ethnic hotchpotch of some 34 different ethnic groups".If there is a move to secede," says Magomedsalikh Gusaev, Dagestan's nationalities minister, "the northern regions will join Russia and I will return to my home district and fight to stay in Russia".
In March and April 1991, the Serbs within Croatia began to make moves to secede from that territory.
The nation itself was birthed by the rebellious spirit that often drives secession movements, though historians typically point out that the Revolutionary War was just that, a revolution, and not technically a move to secede from the British empire.
Davis' sole connection with Kentucky was he was born there and subsequently moved to Mississippi, and Kentucky of course did not secede from the Union," McConnell said.
There are many competing explanations for what moved the South to secede.
Thus, in effect, even as Britain was liberating the slaves of its empire, a British bank could now sell an investor a completely commodified slave: not a particular individual who could die or run away, but a bond that was the right to a one-slave-sized slice of a pie made from the income of thousands of slaves". There are many competing explanations for what moved the South to secede.
The Episcopal Church moved to remove the bishop of the San Joaquin Diocese in California on Wednesday, in reaction to the diocese's unprecedented decision late last year to secede from the church over theological issues.
