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of constitutional law recognize the right of secession founded 

 upon the principle of self-determination. By doing so it 

 would invite its own destruction. For in every modem 

 state there may be found, at one time or other, groups suf- 

 ficiently dissatisfied with the conduct of the majority or of 

 a ruling minority to demand a release from their allegiance. 

 Such demands are especially likely to occur in a state which 

 in the past has acquired, on the time-honored principle of 

 conquest, groups of populations ethnically foreign to its own 

 racial stock. 



