Posted on 04/27/2009 4:08:24 AM PDT by Scanian
Recently Governor Rick Perry rattled the cages in Washington when he suggested that Texas might at some point be so disgusted with Washington’s repeated violations of the United States Constitution that they might want to secede from the union. It stems from the one amendment to the Constitution that gets the least attention - the Tenth Amendment.
The Tenth Amendment enumerates the rights of the states and the people. Specifically it states that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Shortly after Virginia ratified the Constitution back in 1788, New York and Rhode Island made similar claims to their ratification document.
On June 26, 1788, Virginia’s elected delegates met to ratify the Constitution. In their ratification document, they said, “The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will.”
The original states made it clear that if the federal government exceeded the delegated rights, they had the right to implement their rights. If every state did not think it had the right to secede, there never would have been a union. Thomas Jefferson said, “Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
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If Texas secedes from the Union, I might move there.
prisoner6
“If Txas secedes from the union, I might move there.”
Don’t make too much dust please; I’ll be right on your six.
it would not be many decades before the United States closely resembles the current stagnating European Union while Texas would resemble the United States that followed the Reagan Revolution where we experienced a quarter of century of economic progress (1982-2007).
.... sounds Heavenly, doesn’t it?
Me 4
Texas does have the right to break into four states.
8 Senators rather than 2.
prisoner6
...and some of us enjoy a birthright! Texas born, in the home of the Alamo. Wish my present Governor had the same wisdom as Rick Perry when it comes to government hand outs, and states rights.
As a Texan I want y’all to know that Perry is despised by many of us for being a RINO.
He is not a conservative. He jumped out and supported Rudy very early and then piled in the John “Wayne” McCain boat when he realized Rudy’s boat had no fuel.
The most dangerous place in Texas is no longer that spot from a bull and a fence, but rather that spot in front a news media camera and him.
Every time I post warnings, his people respond.
We will see it that happens again.
What most of the ignorami don't realize is that the U.S. Constitution is a contract between the states, people and the federal government. When the feds decided to unilaterally decide which parts should and should not apply, they invalidate the entire contract and, by doing so, enable the states and the people to do likewise.
And don't give me that crap about succession being tossed into the dustbin of history with the Civil War. Read Lincoln's speeches, especially pre-April 1861. Prior to the Southern declaration of war, Lincoln tried very hard to reach out to them and assure them their rights would be respected, including slavery. Lincoln's own preferred solution to the slavery problem was similar to the successful peaceful model of William Wilberforce in the United Kingdom: compensate the slave owners from public funds (generated from the sale on new land in the west). The state legislatures in the south rode roughshod over a fairly significant minority of southerners who had little or no interest in succession and wanted to see if Lincoln could govern as promised.
The great Texas patriot Sam Houston also wanted no part of the succession movement until such time, if any, that Lincoln's promises turned into lies, at which point he would be open to it.
I feel the same way about Barack-- had he kept his campaign promises to govern from the middle and bridge the sharp partisan divide, even in an incompetent and oafish manner like Jimmy Carter, I feel the country could have survived, albeit in a greatly weakened state. Now, I am not so sure.
All true. Guv Goodhair is as slick as they come. Unfortunately, KBH is worse. Not much in the way of options here for a conservative Governor.
Actually 5 but, who’s counting?
You beat me to it.
“Looks like we got us a convoy!”
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
LOL
If Texas secedes from the Union, please make it a point to annex Virginia, at least Central Virginia? Thanks in advance.
If Texas secedes from the Union, I might move there....
I got to Texas in 2003............SMARTEST decision I EVER made..........
Listen up, y'all. RINO governor Bush resigned after the 2000 election and appointed another RINO (Perry) as his successor. They're joined at the hip.
The only reason Perry is spouting secessionism is because Kay Bailey is polling better than he. He has been mediocre at best.
HA! I got here the same time LOL!
Ditto’s on it being the smartest decision!
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