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[Part 2 of “The Secession Tradition in America,” a paper presented at the 1995 Mises Institute conference, “Secession, State, and Economy.” Click here for Part 1, “Secession: A Specifically American Principle”.] This Humean notion of Americanism that acknowledges the right of a self-governing people to secede is framed in the Declaration of