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TEXAS ORDINANCE OF SECESSION(Texas is going for it!)
State Representative | April 1, 2009 | FGS

Posted on 04/01/2009 8:38:45 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake

Texas
Ordinance of Secession

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State of Texas and the other States united under the Compact styled "the Constitution of the United States of America."

WHEREAS, The Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these States, in giving protection either to the persons of our people upon an exposed frontier, or to the property of our citizens, and

WHEREAS, the action of the Irresponsible States of the Union are violative of the compact between the States and the guarantees of the Constitution; and,

WHEREAS, The recent developments in Federal affairs make it evident that the power of the Federal Government is sought to be made a weapon with which to strike down the interests and property of the people of Texas, and her sister like-minded States, instead of permitting it to be, as was intended, our shield against outrage and aggression; THEREFORE,

SECTION 1. We, the people of the State of Texas, by delegates in convention assembled, do declare and ordain that the ordinance adopted by our convention of delegates on the 4th day of July, A.D. 1845, and afterwards ratified by us, under which the Republic of Texas was admitted into the Union with other States, and became a party to the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America," be, and is hereby, repealed and annulled; that all the powers which, by the said compact, were delegated by Texas to the Federal Government are revoked and resumed; that Texas is of right absolved from all restraints and obligations incurred by said compact, and is a separate sovereign State, and that her citizens and people are absolved from all allegiance to the United States or the government thereof.

SEC. 2. This ordinance shall be submitted to the people of Texas for their ratification or rejection, by the qualified voters, on the 4th day of July, A.D. 2009, and unless rejected by a majority of the votes cast, shall take effect and be in force on and after the 1st day of August, A.D. 2009.

Done by the people of the State of Texas, in convention assembled, at Austin, this 1st day of April, A.D. 2009.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; aprilfoolsday; justdayum; missinglink; texas; texasrules; texassecession; whoanelly; yougottabekiddin
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I've been bird dogging my State Rep Kevin McReynolds for a while about the lack of progress of Texas' 10th Amendment Resolution. He has been a little evasive even though he signed on as a co-sponsor; suggested I be patient, that I would probably like how things turned out. But, gee whiz!!!
1 posted on 04/01/2009 8:38:45 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
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To: 11th Commandment; 17th Miss Regt; 2001convSVT; 2banana; 2ndDivisionVet; A_Former_Democrat; ...

Are you believin’ this???!!!


2 posted on 04/01/2009 8:39:48 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have two choices and two choices only: SUBMIT or RESIST. Have I missed anything?)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Bump


3 posted on 04/01/2009 8:40:50 PM PDT by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: ForGod'sSake

I might if it had been announced tomorrow.


4 posted on 04/01/2009 8:40:53 PM PDT by Ingtar (Americans have truly let America down. A sad day.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Sooo...what does one have to do to become a citizen of Republic of Texas?

Just curious.


5 posted on 04/01/2009 8:41:17 PM PDT by madison10
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To: ForGod'sSake

I don’t believe much of anything dated 1 April!


6 posted on 04/01/2009 8:41:21 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: ForGod'sSake

Let’s see if this still is a real story April 2nd....


7 posted on 04/01/2009 8:41:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

as much as it won’t go anywhere, a move like this should it gain traction would really put a kink in Birak’s plan to take over the country. But, he could then break up other states so that there will end up being 58 states by the time he’s done.


8 posted on 04/01/2009 8:41:43 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: ForGod'sSake

April fool!


9 posted on 04/01/2009 8:41:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Not on April Fools Day

Otherwise, I say let’s go for it!!!


10 posted on 04/01/2009 8:42:16 PM PDT by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger --------------- Molon Labe)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Any twelve guys can call themselves a convention. So if this isn’t April Fool, I suggest a few books by Bruce Catton. Texas has been there and done that, and the matter was settled.


11 posted on 04/01/2009 8:44:33 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: ForGod'sSake

Don’t tease me.


12 posted on 04/01/2009 8:44:37 PM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: SuperLuminal

Whoops! Forgot to mention that the WH just announced that Obama has decided to resign and move back to Kenya with his aunt.


13 posted on 04/01/2009 8:44:48 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Neil E. Wright

What a DREAM ping!


14 posted on 04/01/2009 8:45:16 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

yeahright.

Where’s the link?


15 posted on 04/01/2009 8:46:06 PM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: madison10; xzins
Sooo...what does one have to do to become a citizen of Republic of Texas?

I was born there. So I can be president.

16 posted on 04/01/2009 8:46:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: xkaydet65

Nope. No settlement. Just crushing under Lincoln’s iron heel. That’s it and all.


17 posted on 04/01/2009 8:46:41 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: stickandrudder
So will Geithner and his friends still be able to fire a guy if the guy's business is based in the Breakaway Republic of Texas?

(BREAKING: link on Drudge's page)

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/01/business/econwatch/entry4911030.shtml

18 posted on 04/01/2009 8:48:03 PM PDT by shoutingandpointing
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To: ForGod'sSake

Thanks for all your hard work FGS!

Our States flexing some muscle is our only hope to stop Hussein at this point.


19 posted on 04/01/2009 8:49:37 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: ForGod'sSake

If it happens, I’m moving!


20 posted on 04/01/2009 8:50:36 PM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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