The following is the second part of my booklist on the subject of secession, for those readers of the Times-Union who are interested in doing their own research.
Part one listed 12 sources of information readily available within our county. This letter will list a further dozen most of these books can be found at the Warsaw Public Library, while the remainder can be found at Amazon.com or through Google search. I have also included a definition of secession that I developed based on some of those sources of information.
Definition of Secession
Secession is the act and/or process where the ruling elite(s) and or residents in a part (a group of or a single nations(s), colony(ies), state(s), city(ies), or territory(ies) of a political union (league, federation or empire)) decide whether for the right or wrong reasons to formally withdraw from that union through peaceful and/or violent means on their own initiative by renouncing their allegiance to the authority of the central government and/or the rest of the union, their intention of becoming a free self-governing entity, and beginning the formation of an independent country and its subsequent institutions.
Reading List for Further Information
1. Kosovo: War and Revenge
2. The Impossible Country: A Journey through the Last Days of Yugoslavia
3. Nations in Transition: Croatia
4. Nations in Transition: Serbia and Montenegro
5. Nations in Transition: Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power
7. Macmillan Information Now Encyclopedia: The Confederacy
8. Is Secession Treason?
9. One Nation Indivisible?: A Study of Secession and the Constitution
10. A Constitutional History of Secession
11. The Federalist Papers
12. The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
The third part of my booklist will follow at a later date in the letters to the editor column.
