The clone wars was more of a galactic civil war than the actual galactic civil war.

There’s an easier answer: they were legally allowed to leave ONLY if the Chancellor wasn’t there within 15 minutes

A lot of people complain about all the talk of trade routes and tax policy dragging down the prequel plot, but I actually kinda like it. It's nice to have a movie conflict started by something boring and rational and not "those guys are evil".

So Star Wars prequels were basically about space Brexit

I think the Separatist worlds were able to legally leave the Republic; however, the process to do so would have taken an unreasonably long time. It's been mentioned many times that the Republic by the time of the Prequel trilogy was in an almost gridlock state when it came to getting things done concerning the Senate and even worse when it came to the courts. The Separatist worlds would likely have been able to legally succeed from the Republic, but such a process would have likely taken many years, if not decades for them to be 100% free. And of course most Separatist worlds wanted to leave almost immediately and didn't care about the formal process which would have taken far too long in their eyes, which is why they just straight up left in a manner that was illegitimate legally in the Republic's perspective.

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I'm more in touch with SW politics than US politics lol

I like how Thrawn’s first question about the war when he met a senator was; “why didn’t you let them leave?”

Oh, they could legally leave, but Republican gatekeeping and gerrymandering prevented them from doing so.

Stop pretending, you come from egg_irl too.

Planet leaves Republic

How Palpatine started the Clone Wars:

There is a scene in the Clone Wars series where the Separatist Senate holds a vote to open peace negotiations with the Galactic Republic. The phrase "This is a democracy, and unlike the Republic, corporations do not rule us!" was uttered.

They hated sand

It should be noted that at a point in the Clone Wars television show (the newer one) that both sides had become weary of the war and were willing to sue for peace. Both sides actually spoke of it in earnest until Palpatine orchestrated a terrorist attack on the Republic.

Me, 16 years ago: "Who cares about political shit, I want to see lightsabers!"

People always complained about “ugh taxes and trade policy how boring” I love hearing about it

Anyone else love random rambly law lore videos from Eck?

Is that legal my lord?

It was a complicated issue, neither side was wholly good. As for the Jedi, they really shouldn't have involved themselves beyond rooting out Sith