New York Anti-Secession Ordinance
The New York Anti-Secession Ordinance, also called as Anti-Secession Resolutions of the New York legislature is a temporary resolution passed in 1861 by the New York State Assembly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, calling on the Lincoln administration not to allow the Southern states to secede from the Union. In 2005, the government of the People's Republic of China cited New York's anti-secession resolutions when enacting its Anti-Secession Law. The Ordinance is regarded by both Chinese jurisprudence and leading public opinion incorrectly as a form of federal law. The Chinese media almost always referred to it as the "Anti-Secession Act" (Chinese: 反脱离联邦法/反脱離聯邦法) and reported it extensively afterwards, with only Initium Media arguing that it was inconsequential and that mainstream Chinese analysis was shallow and pseudohistorical.
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