Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec. (book reviews)

Secession addresses a problem that, Buchanan thinks, cuts to the heart of liberalism's universalism and its exclusive focus on individual interests and rights (p. 8). If a group can better secure its interests (broadly conceived) by secession from a polity than by remaining in it, then it seems that the members of the group are better served by focus on the group.

On this account, secession is merely a political manifestation of underlying communitarian commitments. Buchanan wishes to give such commitments their due by "significantly modifying liberalism [and] pruning back its ...

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