seceders
Those who withdraw
Seceders are people who withdraw from an organization, alliance, or political union.
The term appears most often in historical contexts—states that seceded from the Union, congregations that broke from established churches.
A seceder acts on principle, rejecting continued membership: The seceders formed their own denomination.
Opponents of prevailing views
- objectorsPeople who formally disagree
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- nonconformistsThose defying established customs
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
refuseniks · heretics · apostates · renegades · defectors · contrarians · skeptics · iconoclasts
Separation into parts
- riftCrack or estrangement
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- splinteringBreaking into sharp fragments
disaffiliation · estrangement · parting · severance · rupture · fracture · breach · cleavage
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
insurgency · subversion · revolutionaries · rebels · partisans · guerrillas · coup · overthrow
Freedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
self-governance · statehood · nationhood · republic · separatism · confederation · federation · nullification
Secessionist Southern government
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
ratification · convention · delegates · commissioners · legislature · articles · compact · union
dissenters
Opponents of prevailing views
- objectorsPeople who formally disagree
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- nonconformistsThose defying established customs
protesters · refuseniks · heretics · apostates · renegades · defectors · contrarians · skeptics · iconoclasts · mavericks
split
Separation into parts
splintering · disaffiliation · estrangement · parting · severance · rupture · fracture · breach · cleavage · dissolution
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- mutinyRevolt against authority
resistance · insurgency · subversion · revolutionaries · rebels · partisans · guerrillas · coup · overthrow · treason
independence
Freedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
self-determination · self-governance · statehood · nationhood · republic · separatism · confederation · federation · nullification · interposition
Confederacy
Secessionist Southern government
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
ordinance · ratification · convention · delegates · commissioners · legislature · articles · compact · union · disunion
secedersloyalists
Faithful to established authority
unionists · remainers · federalists · integrationists · nationalists