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When ethnic or linguistic minorities claim the right to secede, they make a claim for independence, says Groarke, but that independence is not possible without dissolving the existing compact and divesting the state of its authority to govern, and this challenge to legitimacy has provoked bitter resistance and led to intolerance, war, and brutality all around. A veteran criminal lawyer and member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal since 1995, he takes a legal, rather than political or military, approach, setting out a theory that brings secession firmly within the rule of law. He also develops a conceptual framework for a legal resolution of the claim that a minority has a right to secede. His study is theoretical and philosophical, and does not provide case studies or discuss practical mechanics for devolving power. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
