Posted on 03/04/2024 3:59:06 PM PST by Rusty0604
In an opinion piece published on Saturday titled, "Texas voters, beware of pro-secession candidates," the Dallas Morning News' editorial board raised concerns over Republican candidates signing the "Take Texas Back" pledge.
"As Super Tuesday approaches, Republican primary voters in Texas should beware. A worrying number of candidates for the Texas House of Representatives and other offices have signed the 'Take Texas Back' pledge that makes them promise to advance legislation to help Texas secede from the United States under certain conditions," the opinion piece read.
The "Take Texas Back" pledge asks candidates to promise that if elected, they will place the interests of Texas before any nation or political entity. By signing the pledge, candidates also promise to advance legislation to call for a referendum for Texans to assert their status as an independent nation, if a majority of residents are interested.
According to the newspaper, over 150 people have signed the pledge so far
The Dallas Morning News' editorial board also warned that the pledge of secession creates "sizable" challenges such as funding, as the "Take Texas Back" pledge does not identify how an independent Texas would run in the absence of federal funding.
"Candidates who sign the pledge also signal that they aren't thinking far ahead about the real-life consequences of their statements. The website for the Take Back Texas pledge does not identify how an independent Texas would be funded in absence of federal money that currently comprises about 30% of our state's budget. The practical challenges to establishing an independent nation are sizable and cannot be patched over with extreme rhetoric," the opinion piece stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I think the civil war decided that though. But there is no dispute that secession is allowed if you amend the constitution to allow it. You would have a hard time getting the number of states needed to approve it now. But if the libs continue to degrade the unity of the nation I think it could happen. For example if the government can’t pay the national debt…. That might be the trigger.
Just saw this on X
BRICS
Russia officially drafts plans to create a digital BRICS payment platform to counter the US dollar.
BRICS Begins Creation of New Digital Payment Platform
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-begins-creation-of-new-digital-payment-platform?s=09
Mexico wants to join BRICS in 2024
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1764093614479827339?t=tQCJVra0zTvigSbgxLutvQ&s=09
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You are not listening. Secssion is not prohibited. They couldn't amend the USC after the war because in doing so congress would have codified the fact the the South had every legal right to secede!!!
Thank you as always for the Texas ping!
That is one side of the ledger; what about the asset side of the ledger.
The federal government owns 61 percent of Alaska; how much is that land, oil, gas, and gold worth and what percent of that is to be returned to the people of Texas when the assets are distributed during the divorce.
The federal government owns much more including 27 percent of all the land in the United States - plus a lot of buildings, military equipment, and mineral rights, and highways. Texas helped to pay for a lot of that and are entitled to remuneration to help offset their portion of the federal debt.
It may turn out the federal government owes Texas more than Texas owes the feds.
“But there is no dispute that secession is allowed if you amend the constitution to allow it.”
There is no right enumerated in the U.S. Constitution to allow a state to secede, just as the Constitution does not give the states the right to allow the sale of cherry infused Dr. Pepper.
The founders didn’t set up our country that way.
To find intent of the founders, read the Constitution including the Bill of Rights and pay attention to amendments 9 and 10.
That’s why you’d need to amend it.
Can you post the part of the US Constituion that prohibits secession. I’ll wait.
Had there been a clause prohibiting secession the Constitution would have never been ratified.
“That’s why you’d need to amend it.”
To give the states the right to allow the sale of cherry infused Dr Pepper?
No.
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Probably need to put that on a separate thread
Don't mortgage your future.
Secession isn't prohibited.
This nation was founded on secession and the framers of the constitution and those ratifying were not about to turn their backs on the Declaration of Independence just 12 years later.
“..Joe is teetering on the edge of Hell, one slip away from eternal damnation....”
He can quit “teetering” right now and just go ahead and do the world, and Hell, a great, big favor by just taking the “plunge”.
Maybe old heels-up, knees-wide will give him that special little “nudge”.
Where can I find the list of signers; I’m in Texas and want to vote for them tomorrow.
Rusty0604 wrote:
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Some years ago we got enough signatures on a petition to just have the question of succession on the republican ballot. The Republicans refused to put it on.
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They did the same thing this year, said some of the TNM signatures gathered, to put the question on the ballot, were not valid.
BINGO.
I don’t think there’s a major paper in Texas that’s owned and staffed by Texans.
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