Is Secession Legal?

Tags: Interventionism, Political Theory, Legal System

04/03/2013 Brion McClanahan

From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 23 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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