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Definition of Seceding
1. secede [v] - See also: secede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seceding
Literary usage of Seceding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Republic of Nations: A Study of the Organization of a Federal League of by Raleigh C. Minor (1918)
"Should the seceding nation be entitled to its proportionate share of the common
property in kind or in money commutation therefor, and if so how should that ..."
2. A Republic of Nations: A Study of the Organization of a Federal League of by Raleigh C. Minor (1918)
"That question relates to the respective rights of seceding and non-seceding States
in the common property of the union, such as the ships of war, ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"REPRESENTATION IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS FROM THE seceding STATES, 1861-65 I.
THE following paper deals with a small part of ..."
4. Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention: Held at Jefferson by Missouri Convention (1861)
"The second proposition contained in the amendment is, that Missouri will not
countenance or aid a seceding State in making war on the General Government. ..."
5. Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention: Held at Jefferson by Missouri Convention, Missouri Convention, March, 1861 (1861)
"The resolution condemns the employment of military force by the Federal Government,
to coerce the submission of the seceding States, and condemns the ..."
6. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"SPEECHES OF seceding SENATORS. — MR. YULEE AND MR. ... Members of the House from
the seceding States, with few exceptions, refrained from individual ..."
7. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"The Albany Argus said that to employ force against the seceding States "would be
madness," and that "the first gun fired in the way of forcing a seceding ..."
8. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait Howe (1914)
"The Albany Argus said that to employ force against the seceding States "would be
madness," and that "the first gun fired in the way of forcing a seceding ..."
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