Secession

Allen Buchanan :Secession

Some philosophers have distinguished between the question, whether and, if so, under what conditions a group has a moral claim-right to secede and the question of whether and, if so, under what conditions a constitution ought to or may include a right to secede……
Accordingly, rival theories of secession must be understood as providing alternative accounts of what it takes for a group to come to have a claim to territory that is, at the time included in the territory of an existing state.