This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law. The author first develops a moral theory of secession based on a hypothetical multinational contract. Under this contract theory, injustices do not determine the existence of a right to secede, but the requirements to exercise it. The book’s second part then argues that international law is more inclined to accept and advance a remedial right approach to secession. Therefore, justice as multinational fairness is to be fully institutionalized under the constitutional law of liberal democracies. The final part proposes constitutionalizing a qualified right to secede with the aim of fostering recognition and accommodation of national pluralism as well as cooperation and compromise between majority and minority nations.
Author(s): Pau Bossacoma Busquets
Series: Federalism And Internal Conflicts
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 393
Tags: Constitutional Law
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The Concept of Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 3-8
A Contract Theory of Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 9-69
The Principle of Nationality (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 71-121
Complementary Causes to Legitimize Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 123-143
Front Matter ....Pages 145-145
Self-Determination of Peoples (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 147-180
Unilateral Declarations of Independence Under International Law (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 181-188
Effectiveness and International Recognition (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 189-207
Front Matter ....Pages 209-209
Constitutional Right to Secede and Constitutional Reform (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 211-253
The Principle of Democracy and Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 255-261
Representative Democracy and Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 263-276
Referendum Democracy and Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 277-316
Consensual Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 317-333
Internal Self-Determination (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 335-345
Unilateral Secession (Pau Bossacoma Busquets)....Pages 347-365
Back Matter ....Pages 367-386
