It’s Debatable: Do States have the Right to Secede from the Union?

Date

2018

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Publisher

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Abstract

Arnold Loewy and Charles Moster debate the rights of states to secede from the Union, specifically during the Civil War. Moster is a former litigation attorney in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential administrations who currently has offices in Lubbock and Amarillo, and Arnold is the George Killiam Professor of Law at Texas Tech School of Law.

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Keywords

Secession, State’s rights, Civil War, Federal powers, State sovereignty, Tenth Amendment

Citation

Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Do States have the Right to Secede from the Union?, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (May 20, 2018).