Republican bills suggest New Hampshire should secede from union: report

There's a growing conservative push to have the state of New Hampshire secede from the union, Newsweek reported.

Two bills calling for the state to secede will soon be considered by the New Hampshire House.

"Republican state Representative Jason Gerhard proposed that New Hampshire should peacefully declare independence from the U.S. if the national debt surpasses $40 trillion. To date, the debt number stands at upwards of $34 trillion," Newsweek's report stated.

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"Meanwhile, another Republican, state Representative Matthew Santonastaso proposed in HB 1130 that New Hampshire create an Independence Study Committee."

According to a poll from the University of New Hampshire, one in five state residents think secession is a viable idea.

"These sorts of calls for breaking up the union are deeply unserious, supported by only those who don't fully understand what secession would entail," Georgia College & State University professor Nicholas Creel told Newsweek.

"They have no realistic chance of happening as the law is clear that secession itself is not constitutional and we are nowhere near the level of acrimony needed for people to actually support the political violence that would be required to effectuate it in defiance of the law."