Assertion: secession | /r/HasProperty | unlawful
Facets:
value: in circumstances
type: OTHER
value: in any case
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Secession is unlawful.
text: Some claims revolve around the insignificance of slavery; some appeals highlight cultural differences between North and South; the military conflict by Confederate actors is idealized; in any case, secession was said to be lawful.
text: If it were true that secession were lawful and constitutional, then the Union would have been unambiguously wrong in the Civil War: if secession were a lawful practice, then regardless of the reason for their having seceded, they would have been in the right.
text: The South's rejoining the Union at the point of a bayonet in the late 1860s didn't prove secession is "not an option" or unlawful.
text: He gave several reasons, among them his belief that secession was unlawful, the fact that states were physically unable to separate, his fears that secession would cause the weakened government to descend into anarchy, and his steadfast conviction that all Americans should be friends towards one another, rather than enemies.
text: At first, the speeches were mixed between Secessionists advocating leaving the Union, Conditional Unionists holding onto the patriotism of earlier times, and Unconditional Unionists insisting that secession was bad policy and unlawful.
text: A more controversial question is whether secession would be lawful in circumstances where a state denies the internal form of the right to a people – violating their fundamental human rights.
text: If it were true that secession were lawful and constitutional, then the Union would have been unambiguously wrong in the Civil War: if secession were a lawful practice, then regardless of the reason for their having seceded, they would have been in the right.