  In the philosophical literature a putatively exhaustive distinction is drawn between two theories of the right to secede (understood as a unilateral claim-right): Remedial right only theories and primary right   theories.[5]  Remedial right only theories analogize the right to secede to the right to revolution, understanding it as a right that a group comes to have only as a result of violations of other rights. On this view secession is justified only as a remedy of last resort for persistent and serious injustices. The right to unilateral secession thus understood is not primary, but rather derivative upon the violation of other, more basic rights; hence the label “remedial right only.” Sometimes the term “just cause theories” is used to refer to remedial right only theories and the term “choice theories” to refer to primary right theories.