status and its relationship to the United States through a binding plebiscite. Since the late 20th century, some states periodically discuss desires to secede from the United States. Unilateral secession was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in Texas v. White (1869). Uyghuristan/East Turkestan Western Sahara There is an active movement based on the self-determination of the Sahrawi people in the Western Saharan region. Morocco also claims the entire territory, and maintains control of about two-thirds of the region. West Papua The self-determination of the West Papuan people has been violently suppressed by the Indonesian Government since the withdrawal of Dutch colonial rule under the Dutch New Guinea in 1962. Western Cape Since the late 2000s there has been growing calls for the people of the Western Cape province of South Africa to become an independent state. South Africa in its current form was created in 1910 after the South Africa Act 1909 was passed in the British parliament. The Cape Colony ceased to exist, however many of its unique political and cultural quirks such as the Cape Liberal Tradition nevertheless continued to exist. Recent polling has shown that over 46% of Western Cape voters back independence outright. See also Anti-imperialism Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations Decolonization Special Committee on Decolonization United Nations list of non-self-governing territories Ethnic separatism Ethnonationalism Ethnopluralism Identity politics Independence movement Indigenous peoples Informational self-determination (German) International relations theory Irredentism Legitimacy Legitimacy of Israel International recognition of Israel List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies List of national liberation movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations Lists of active separatist movements National delimitation in the Soviet Union National personal autonomy Nation-state Non-Intervention Plurinationalism Religious nationalism Right to exist Consent of the governed Popular sovereignty Self-governance Self-ownership Separatism Stateless nation Territorial integrity Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Wars of national liberation References Bibliography Rudolf A. Mark, "National Self-Determination, as Understood by Lenin and the Bolsheviks." Lithuanian Historical Studies (2008), Vol. 13, p 21–39. Online Abulof, Uriel and Cordell, Karl (eds.) (2015). Special Issue: Self-determination—A Double-edged Principle, Ethnopolitics 14(5). Danspeckgruber, Wolfgang F., ed. The Self-Determination of Peoples: Community, Nation, and State in an Interdependent World, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Danspeckgruber, Wolfgang F., and Arthur Watts, eds. Self-Determination and Self-Administration: A Sourcebook, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for