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To: donmeaker

There is nothing in the Texas constitution allowing internal partition.

Where is the legal documentation reflecting the provision you refer?

Thanks.


201 posted on 11/08/2012 11:47:46 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

It was in the US annexation of Texas, IIRC, that Texas had the authority to divide itself into as many as 5 states.


219 posted on 11/08/2012 5:53:55 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: Hulka

Texas annexation was by Joint Resolution of Congress, and put to a vote, and agreed to by the electorate of Texas.

The Joint Resolution of Congress has the provision permitting Texas to divide itself.

On the other hand, Texas claimed more land, and some of the land they claimed has been divided into parts of what are now New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming.

So it would be an interesting court case, and I don’t know how it would end. Of further interest it may be the kind of controversy that would, per Article 3 of the Constitution, have the SCOTUS as original juridiction.


221 posted on 11/08/2012 6:11:53 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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