The secession tradition in America / Donald W. Livingston -- When is political divorce justified? / Steven Yates -- The ethics of secession / Scott Boykin -- Nations by consent / Murray N. Rothbard -- Secession / Clyde N. Wilson -- Republicanism, federalism, and secession in the South, 1790 to 1865 / Joseph R. Stromberg -- Yankee Confederates / Thomas DiLorenzo -- Was the Union Army's invasion of the Confederate States a lawful act? / James Ostrowski -- The economic and political rationale for European secessionism / Hans-Hermann Hoppe -- A secessionist's view of Quebec's options / Pierre Desrochers and Eric Duhaime -- How to secede in business without really leaving / Bruce L. Benson.