Secession, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. The secessionist states formed the Confederate States of America. Secession precipitated the American Civil War. DEFCON 5 is in effect for the lowest perceived threat, while DEFCON 1 is the highest threat level and readiness for a state of war. In 1959, when the DEFCON system was implemented, the Joint Michael Howard’s delineation, here, exemplifies Foucault’s analysis of the discursive techniques of power. Howard demands, as we have come to accept, that war is the prerogative of the state—a state bound by conventions—and those conventions are the discourse through which the state claims legitimacy for its actions; Al Qaeda’s actions don’t deserve to be called war. Synonyms for WAR: hostilities, conflict, conflagration, skirmish, hot war, fighting, warfare, battle; Antonyms of WAR: peace, disarmament, demobilization a proclamation of state of emergency shall be made by the President. These conditions as spelt out are when (a) The federation is at war, (b) The federation is in imminent danger of invasion or involvement in a state of war, (c) There is actual breakdown of public order and public safety in the federation or any A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in order to create a state of war between two or more states . The legality of who is competent to A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. A document by the Federation of American Scientists gives an extensive listing and summary of statutes which are automatically engaged upon the United States declaring war. He even called the state of nature vellum omnium contra omnes, or the war of all against all. John Locke Locke also thought the state of nature was a state of equality and freedom but in a much Q7g7s.