Decentralization and Secession

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Ryan McMaken

If Staten Island is allowed to secede, our national technocrats fear that might open up countless similar demands for self-determination across the nation. For the elites, the current status quo works quite well and they want to keep it that way. 

Ryan McMaken

"In all matters of government the State tolerates no intermediate agent between itself and the people, and in general business it directs the people by its own immediate influence." 

Stephen Anderson

The use of interstate compacts by US states shows that the states don't need the federal government to dictate or manage interstate relations. 

Ryan McMaken

Independence Day is not a celebration of "America." It's a commemoration of secession and armed revolt.

Ryan McMaken

All else being equal, a physically large country provides regimes with more opportunities to wage more war, collect more taxes, and control more people.