Posted on 12/05/2023 9:38:17 AM PST by Enlightened1
Texas fully rejoined the Union on March 30, 1870, when President Grant signed the act to readmit Texas to Congressional Representation. “The United States government has never recognized the right of states to secede, and considers the states to never have left the union during the American Civil War. Yet, the states were required to agree to Reconstruction before being permitted to send representatives to Congress again.”
So they will be dragged into lawlessness and tyranny. Already there, actually. See what's happening with state efforts to stop illegal aliens? Lawlessness & tyranny. And yet, for all the hot air over the past few decades, nothing happens. Too much fed $$$$ coming into the state. My original statement stands. The people of Texas are the same as the people of any other state. They prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom. Isn't Sheila Jackson Lee from Texas?
Ah, the short-lived California Republic. I was born and raised in California, and we knew of the “republic,” but pretty much dismissed it as a legal fiction because it (an independent republic) was recognized by no one. It’s kind of like what CHAZ in Portland was.
Another legal fiction: They never left, but were required to submit to reconstruction in order to be RECOGNIZED as never having left. They either — LEGALLY — left, or they didn’t. Political games don’t change that reality.
It’s the same general idea with the EU today, but in reverse: The EU Council cannot eject an EU member, but it can strip it of its vote, which is effectively a de facto ejection but not a de jure ejection. Like I said, legal fictions.
Bunch of hog wash Texas isn’t going anywhere, this comes around every time there is a dimwit in office.>>>> it must happen a lot then.
That would be great if that happened.
Wait until the big crash. Secession wil be on EVERYONES mind.....
There is a lot of unionist scum on FR......
Unlikely in the short term, inevitable long term.
Empires don’t tend to last much more than 200 years. At the rate we are going there won’t be anything to secede from before too terribly long.
New story line: Texas and its allies conquer the rest of the US and western Canada.
Some might. But most won’t.
Exactly. Which is why it won’t be allowed to happen.
doing it the day of is to late. Texas should have been planning for years to detach ourselves from the puss pocket that has ran this country into the ground.
Apparently you've never heard of Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island, Oregon, The Republic of West Florida, or the Free Republic of Franklin.
Came here to say this. Vermont was stand alone for a couple of years.
Dream on.
Apparently I have. See my post #27.
Vermont, Rhode Island, Oregon, West Florida, and “Franklin” were not recognized independent countries. Simply “declaring”
itself to be an independent and sovereign country does not make it so. Without recognition and acceptance as such, it is just an area that has thrown a tantrum. Hell, I can declare my home and property an independent and sovereign nation called The Republic of Ought-Six. That does not make it one.
The federal government would never allow it. What would become of the sacred Juneteenth holiday?
These states they list are trivia question game answers.
Texas was a real country.
Embassies and legations when Texas was its own country
https://www.georgeranch.org/blog/embassies-legations-texas-country/#:~:text=During%20the%20Republic%20years%2C%20we,%2D1839)%2C%20Richard%20G.
Foreign relations of the Republic of Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_Republic_of_Texas
The Texas Navy and Texas Army were merged with the United States Armed Forces on February 19, 1846 after the Republic of Texas became the 28th state of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Navy
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