During the three months between his election and the inauguration, much was to happen and tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Debates about citizenship, belonging, and state power highlight tensions in SA’s democracy - and reveal what citizenship ...

South Carolina elites were opposed to federal ... It will eventually see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

Certainly the legislative branch can impeach an overreaching executive, as happened recently in South Korea ... situation lead to consideration of the secession of blue states, either individually ...

In recent months, with increasing Annapolis-imposed taxes and control over farmland for solar power generation, the call for ...

In total, 33 counties in more southern, rural parts of Illinois have expressed interest in secession due to dissatisfaction with the liberal state governments and allocation of resources between ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that secession by Southern Sudan is "inevitable." Speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, she admitted "this is going ...

The president cautions everyone to exercise his or her constitutionally given right, but to do so in the manner that does not undermine and subvert constitutional democracy in South Africa.