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    The refusal to grant a unilateral right to secede to all ... — Carmelics
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    The refusal to grant a unilateral right to secede to all nations is a virtue of the remedial right only approach, not a defect.

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    • 1.Ascriptivist theories endorse a unilateral right to secede for all nations.
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    • 2.Virtually every state contains more than one nation.
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    • 3.Nations are not neatly sorted into discrete regions but claim the same territories.
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    • 1.The remedial right only approach conflates moral legitimacy with political stability, privileging state integrity over self-determination.
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    • 2.Plebiscitary theorists like Harry Beran argue that consent-based secession rights are foundational to democratic legitimacy, not destabilizing exceptions.
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    • 3.A theory that denies prima facie self-determination rights to nations fails to explain why existing state boundaries deserve stronger moral protection than national claims.
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    • 1.The threat of territorial fragmentation from universal secession rights is empirically overstated, as demonstrated by Buchanan's own acknowledgment that most nations lack viable separable territories.
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    • 2.Dismissing ascriptivist theories on consequentialist grounds of instability smuggles in a status quo bias that privileges historically contingent, often unjustly drawn borders.
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    What the remedial right only approach does not do is concede that nations as such—independently of any persisting pattern of grave injustices—have a unilateral right to secede. But it can be argued that this is a virtue of the account, not a defect. It thereby avoids the objection to which ascriptivist theories are vulnerable, namely, that they endorse a unilateral right to secede for all nations in a world in which virtually every state contains more than one nation and in which nations are not
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