[stocksthatgoup]

Does Texas have the right to secede?

This heavily popularized bit of Texas folklore finds no corroboration where it counts: No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1] (adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...” (note that it does not state “...subject to the President of the United States...” or “...subject to the Congress of the United States...” or “...subject to the collective will of one or more of the other States...”)

[lentulusgracchus]

On Texas's terms of Union, the regnant document should be the congressional resolution that recognized Texas annexation (not Statehood -- Texas was a State before she was in the Union: a good example of a State not "created by" or a "creature of" Congress according to the favorite formulation of Union triumphalists and statists -- who share that political theory with Adolf Hitler) and laid out its terms.

Texas does most certainly have the right to subdivide into as many as five States of the Union by preclearance from the Congress.

Hey, Schmucky Chuckie, how's that grab you? Watching Cornyn and Cruz waltzing eight new Texican colleagues down the Senate aisle? You like that one?

[willyd]

"This heavily popularized bit of Texas folklore find no corroboration where it counts"
Would this count?

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.