  What the two types of primary right theories have in common is that they do not require injustice as a necessary condition for the existence of a unilateral (claim-)right to secede. They are primary right theories because they do not make the unilateral (claim-)right to secede derivative upon the violation of other, more basic rights, as the remedial right only theories   do.[7]  No attempt will be made here to provide a comprehensive comparative evaluation of these rival theories (see Buchanan 1997). Instead, we will only identify their major strengths and weaknesses.