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Philosophical concept

Political union

Political union binds states and citizens under common authority; preserving it raises questions of secession, loyalty, and coercion.

Works
163
Passages
21,308
Thinkers
41
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Political union binds states and citizens under common authority; preserving it raises questions of secession, loyalty, and coercion.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 21,308 passages across 163 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: union, secession, sécession

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 19,210 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  11. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  12. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  13. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  14. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  19. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  20. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  21. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  22. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  23. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  24. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  25. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  26. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  27. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  28. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  29. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  30. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages