Sentences with phrase «secession if»

Kalu affirmed that the right of the Igbo had been embedded in the United Nation's charter, which gave them the full right to ask for secession if they were no longer comfortable in living together as one country called Nigeria.

Not exact matches

If Scotland votes for independence exactly two weeks from today, expect a revival in another part of the world that has had the occasional secession debate — Western Australia.

The method by which Kenney proposes to wage his equalization battle is based on the Supreme Court's 1998 Quebec secession reference, which states the federal government must negotiate with the province if there's a «clear answer on a clear question.»

There are those, especially today, who wonder if those innovations were really good for the country, but even Howe concedes that Jackson's tendency to identify his office and powers with the sovereignty of the nation was cut from the same cloth as his fierce reaction to Southern threats of secession and nullification.

Coupled with the conferral of this new power on the Scottish Parliament should come limitations on its exercise, to mitigate — if not cure — the problems that the right to secession brings.

Even if the East fights a war of secession and wins, it still can not secede.

Personally, I don't like secession and if this country disintegrates, I shall pack up my things and go.»

If we're talking about secessions through warfare in Europe in general, rather than England specifically, there are notable instances of this occurring in the 20th Century in Russia during the October Revolution, as well as a number of regime changes during and immediately after WW2.

If secession were the priority, you would get behind the only party with a chance of forming a government that had offered the referendum that makes it possible.

If a major swath of APS membership feels it is being misrepresented by an influential minority who, despite years of substantial objections, remain in positions of influence, then there is one effective solution: Secession.

Then again if I was marooned there instead of being part of the diaspora I'd be advocating secession or revolution.

Self - determination is viewed as a threat to national unity that, if realized, could lead to the establishment of «separate rights» or in the extreme view, in the secession of Indigenous people from Australia.