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Posted on 06/24/2016 6:15:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hey, Texplainer: Britain voted to leave the European Union. Can Texas secede from the United States?
In the wake of Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union - nicknamed "Brexit" - speculation of a Texit on the horizon have cropped up once again. The secessionist movement has a long history in the Lone Star state. Delegates for the Texas Republican Party even recently debated adding secessionist language to the party's platform. But is it actually legal for Texas to leave the United States?
Simply put, the answer is no. Historical and legal precedents make it clear that Texas could not pull off a Texit - at least not legally.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...
The US Constitution is silent on the issue of secession.
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No.
The only way for any state to leave the US is via Secession and armed conflict.
Or a rewrite of the USC via Constitutional Convention which provides for exit.
>>Any state can legally secede from the union. Period.<<
Texas v. White - No.
I wonder if the head man over in Brussels, whoever he is, will, like Lincoln, declare a criminal rebellion and send in troops to quell the English resistance.
He’s CA to the core. Not all of CA is full of surfing dudes and dudette liberals.
I have an old copy of the constitution and I’m not up-to-date, please lay out the process by which states may secede. Thanx.
Yes, I do recall hearing my uncle say something about that years ago when we were visiting him in Texas. As you said, prior to joining the Union Texas was a sovereign nation and had the option of secession incorporated into their statehood documents.
Of course it can. Any of the states can legally secede from the union.
Successfully resisting the inevitable military attempt to return the state to the union is another matter, however.
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The thirteen original colonies might be able to make a similar but much less convincing argument.
I thought Lincoln once and for all determined - for all of us - that no state could secede from the Union.......and he was a Republican..... /sarc off......
“We could sell California to China in exchange for forgiveness of debts.”
Why? Just print the money and give it to them. The easiest would be electronically, which we seem to have been doing.
The federal reserve notes are backed up by nothing but the U.S. government’s ability to print them or create them out of thin air.
What we learned from the Civil war was that unilateral secession is impermissible. No one has tried yet for a negotiated secession.
Yes As with Every State! (Not Just Texas) The Constitution was Nothing but a Contract of the different States, Thus Contract can be broke, end... For what is a State? It is the People that Make a State, The State may try as it might, but it does not make the people...
Logic dictates, as well as History, for the premise of the question is what lead to the Original 13 States to begin with... Their Right to Form and Dissolve the bands with one another...
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
God Bless
I believe Texas and California are the only states that were once republics?
Hawaii was a kingdom?
It’s the one war Obama would fight.
Wrong. The US Constitution is silent on the issue. The last session was orderly and followed state conventions. The war came because the North acted in a fascist manner. Secession does not mean war. Only a fascist thinks like that.
Of course they can.
States created fedgov. They can leave.
Doesnt mean fedgov will accept it, but they sure the hell can.
Not a bad idea to have an emergency mirror server somewhere else. And someone who can administer it.
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