25 Percent Of Americans Open To Secession

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/angr ... secession/

I understand their opinion, but we wouldn't need to consider secession if we returned to a federal system of 50 sovereign states, not a national system of a centralized authorities.

Secession TO what?

That's a good question.

Apparently to the status of its own nation, at least temporarily. U.S. Presidents Jefferson and Madison wrote quite strongly that states may do that.

This right here. This right here is, basically, the solution to the entire problem.

The Civil War went down because one half of the country wanted to tell the other half of the country that it must structure its society and its economy in a way that was beneficial primarily to the first half, largely at the expense of the second. Sadly, slavery was just a drum to bang; other than a few pure-hearted abolitionists, Northerners only gave a crap for the fate of the African slave insofar as it would be more beneficial to the North to have them working as domestics and factory laborers at starvation wages. The Union Army wasn't interested in equality or emancipation-- it was just a convenient banner to wave. The Union Army was interested in hanging on to a huge swath of industrial and agricultural resources, and that's ALL.

The same deal is going down today. A handful of oligarchs are interested-- very interested-- in controlling the whole pie. I wish we could go back to having 50 sovereign states with a small federal authority to work out the stuff that we really all have to do together...

...but that isn't bloody likely to happen.

Secessionists-- and possibly federalists too-- can look forward to being neutralized by an awesome display of force.

I understand what Secession means.
My question is TO what form of government?
If this form has failed then what form do they suggest?
If they want the same form of government then this form hasn't failed yet, maybe just needs the leadership rearranged.

Probably 25% of any group body would like things massively changed, especially if things are not currently going well for them.
Especially in this economy...

Is this open to the idea of seccession or full on supporting and spreading it, and voting "Yes" when the time comes?

Madison wrote in a letter to Daniel Webster that unless a state were "seceding from intolerable oppression," which would be an exercise of the right of revolution, unilateral secession would be "a violation, without cause, of a faith solemnly pledged."

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders ... h3s14.html

He mentioned this with regards to the controversy over South Carolina's threatened secession during the Jackson Administration. He was opposed to South Carolina seceding then (as well as nullification), as made clear in his comments at the beginning of the linked letter to Daniel Webster.

Well, given that the 13 colonies weren't suffering under "intolerable oppression" when they left, that makes their seccession from the empire wrong.

Re. a "faith solemnly pledged", one generation cannot bind it's successors (see: Jefferson). That may have been valid during the early years, but it certainly isn't now, since no-one alive today bound themselves.

But all that is academic, and ignores that in practice today, it's generally considered right to secede if a majority favour it. Unless it damages US, Chinese, or Russian interests. Then the UN Security Council will block you.

If you read the secession ordinances as well as the Confederate Constitution, you can see slavery was a big part of the secession of those 11 states:

http://www.constitution.org/csa/ordinan ... ession.htm

This is a source that compares the U.S. and Confederate Constitutions side by side, the latter of which makes liberal mention of the term slavery, providing protections for the institution, prohibiting its abolition, etc.:

http://www.jjmccullough.com/CSA.htm

If you compare the two, you'll see that the Confederate Constitution did little to weaken the power of the federal government compared to the U.S. Constitution (i.e. it was actually a lot less protective of states' rights than commonly assumed), but did a lot to strengthen slavery.

That was in 1833. I am describing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession ... ition_Acts about which "Thomas Jefferson, while sitting as Vice President of the United States in 1799, wrote to James Madison of his conviction in 'a reservation of th[ose] rights resulting to us from these palpable violations [the Alien and Sedition Acts]' and, if the federal government did not return to 'the true principles of our federal compact', [he was determined to] 'sever ourselves from that union we so much value, rather than give up the rights of self government which we have reserved, and in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.'"

let the confederate states GO, once and for all. the north will finally be free of its fundy yoke.

/\ This is 2014 so it won't necessarily be a north and south thing.

I WANT to live in the united states of Canada. am already within its geographic boundaries.

Because we have become a nation of people who do not understand the concept of "united" and only care about themselves and their own interests. Unity requires a degree of sacrifice but we are a land of spoiled, self-indulgent me-ists.