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To: SmokingJoe

I know Texans like to believe that, but they are as misguided on this topic as they are on what true barbecue is.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/11/05/can-texas-secede-from-the-us/

https://texassecede.com/faq.php

These are just two of a multitude of articles about the myth of Texas’ right of secession being somehow different than any other state.


17 posted on 12/13/2020 6:07:11 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lee'sGhost
Actually, every single state has the right to secede, just not unilaterally, as Lee'sGhost pointed out in post number 5. Like I said before, countries much older and with vastly more history than the US, have fallen apart and new countries created all over the world. In the past 40 years alone, The Czeck Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Slovenia, have been created from the breakup of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia alone . We haven't even started talking about the massive 15 countries created from the former USSR yet. If the USSR can break up, every country can break up if outlaw regimes are installed through massive ballot stealing facilitated by lawless BLM/ANTIFA brownshirts and violence.

“What a state (or states) can do, however, is begin the process of seeking a mutually agreed upon parting of the ways, and that process clearly exists, set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1868 ruling in Texas v. White. That ruling concluded that a state (or states) could secede by gaining approval of both houses of Congress and then obtaining ratification by three fourths of the nation's legislatures. In other words, it's a tough task.”

https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2020/10/could-states-really-secede-from-the-union.html

22 posted on 12/13/2020 6:30:56 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Lee'sGhost

How does the secession actually happen?

State referendum...vote of the legislature...governor exec order...or ??


31 posted on 12/13/2020 6:46:01 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: Lee'sGhost

It really is pointless to look at law with this, no way any state would be given permission to leave. If the time comes, you just prep for consequences and leave.


38 posted on 12/13/2020 7:15:45 AM PST by teevolt
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