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To: jeffersondem

Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1. Read it!


265 posted on 08/25/2023 11:12:55 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa; woodpusher; jeffersondem
Read post 263.

It becomes more interesting when you consider the 1869 SCOTUS case of "Texas v. White", wherein the majority opinion declared that a state could not leave the Union except through "revolution or through consent of the States."

The question then becomes, however, assuming the factual claims within the majority opinion — namely, that Texas never actually seceded — have any veracity, then what would the ordinance of secession (approved by the Texas legislature on 2/01/1861, and approved by a statewide referendum on 2/23/1861 with a more than three-fourths majority) have constituted if not a revolutionary act in and of itself?

271 posted on 08/26/2023 7:28:30 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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