Posted on 06/20/2022 12:42:25 PM PDT by DFG
Texas Republicans want to hold a referendum next year to decide whether or not the state should secede from the U.S.
The party charges the state has taken its right to self-govern and calls for secession.
The demand was part of the party platform Republicans voted on at their state convention this weekend, where they also formally rejected President Joe Biden's election in 2020 as legitimate.
Under a section titled 'State Sovereignty,' the platform states: 'Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.
'Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.'
Texas has long pushed an independent movement, called 'Texit.'
After the area declared independence from Mexico in 1836, it was a sovereign state for nine years before it was annexed by the United States in 1845. There have been multiple secession movement since then.
Legally Texas cannot secede from the union. There has been a myth that it can because of the way it was annexed but the Congressional order of annexation merely stated Texas could - at a future date - divide itself into five states. It says nothing about leaving the union.
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CWII simmering...
Legally, constitutionally, there is no procedure for states to leave the union. Legally, there is a process to admit new states, but not a process for states to secede.
Yes, we all know what happened in the Civil War. State after state voted to secede from the union, and military force was used to force states to stay in the union.
Would that same process happen today, if any state voted to secede from the union?
Texas had better go sooner than later before the Leftist Rot finds its way into their marrow.
They can leave if they can push thru a constitutional amendment. That’s not likely to pass unless there are a number of other states that want to secede with them.
Only if the rest of the states, minus the northeast and west coast, joins them.
State after state voted to secede from the union, and military force was used to force states to stay in the union.
Would that same process happen today, if any state voted to secede from the union?]
Another reason why they want to strip you of your gun rights...
Hoping Florida does....
Oklahoma will join them. And invite all of the SEC!
I am all for reestablishing TEXAS as a REPUBLIC. The entire experiment of being a State has proven to be an abject failure. The Communists who control Washington, D.C. have given ample justification to declare that treaty and agreement to be Null and Void. We did not sign on to a suicide pact in 1845.
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
A theory that is well worthy of testing.
ugh! That means I would have to move there.
An article V convention of states could disolve the union. There are many valid arguements as to why we should. The original intent of the constitution has been prostituted by many self serving bloviating pompous arses. Essentially, we have been manipulated into a state of marxism. So many here even believe our “democracy” is lost. Unbelievable.
I would expect 24-26 states would join them.
And, at least 38 other states should secede as well.
” When in the course of human events..... “
Deo Vindice !
And, at least 38 other states should secede as well.
” When in the course of human events..... “
Deo Vindice !
Hear, hear!!
It’s getting crowded. Electrical is difficult to keep up with Roads are packed. Crowds are dense
When you have a dictatorship claiming it owns you they aren’t going to let you go, ask Ukraine how that’s going.
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