Posted on 02/04/2024 5:01:26 PM PST by McGruff
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday walked back her previous comment that Texas could secede from the US if it decided to do so.
“No. According to the Constitution, they can’t,” Haley told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked whether she thought the Lone Star State had a right to secede.
“What I do think they have the right to do is have the power to protect themselves and do all that. Texas has talked about seceding for a long time. The Constitution doesn’t allow for that,” she said. “But what I will say is … Where’s that coming from? That’s coming from the fact that people don’t think that government is listening to them.”
Her comments mark a turnaround from remarks she made last week, when Haley told radio host Charlemagne tha God that “if Texas decides they want to do that, they can do that.”
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Why do you say “Congress ruled” ? It was a US Supreme Court ruling.
But thanks for pointing to it. Its words echo Lincoln’s last speech’s casuistry and ignore that Texas joined as an independent sovereign nation.
Wromg. The 10 million people now paying SS in Texas to the USA will be paying the COUNTRY of Texas instead. You are only looking at the demand side of the issue.
Well it remains to be seen if Texans will like being taxed to pay for the benefits..adding a billion a year to what Texas has to pay out might not be something I’m guessing most folks there would be enthusiastic about lol
No LOL. Again you only look at the demand side. Becoming an independed republic doesn’t mean you no longer pay taxes. It means the COUNTRY of Texas can manage Texa’s SS income in a sane manor.
I love Texas but I won’t be moving there as it will be Taxes...rather than Texas
Article 1 Sectuon 10. Clause 4.
Wrong.
Texas can legitimately resign from the union, unlike California that just resigned with no legality at all
THESE ARE WORDS PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD NEVET DAY, BECAUSE TRUMP LIKE HIS HERO ANDREW JACKSON IS A NATIONALIST.
Lincoln was a bumbler. The Conf3deracy was lucky not to face Jackson or Polk.
The Union is older than the Constitution. It was formed on July. 4th, 1776. The Articles of Confederation made the Union Perpetual. The Constitution forbade Secession I’m Article 1, section 10. Clause 4. Jackson would have finished what he started in 1832.
The Confederate Constitution had a Clause banning Sucession. What was good for the goose wasn’t good for the gander.
I read once that in the very first week of the First Congress, a representative from South Carolina threatened that his state would secede. So much for the understanding of the issue when the Constitution was first adopted.
Secession was decided in 1861-1865, Then the SCOTUS decision of Texas vs White in 1869.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Texas-v-White
Nope.
The Civil War demonstrated that the Tenth Amendment was a dead letter. The last five years have shown that most of the protections of the other amendments are dead letters as well.
"It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776."
The Declaration of Independence asserts an inviolable right to independence for any people (state) that wants it.
It declares it a right given by God, and that people can "abolish" their government, and form one which suits them better.
The Declaration of Independence utterly contradicts the idea that the "Union" is perpetual. It cannot be "perpetual" when every state has a right to leave if it so wishes.
You mean 11 years after they wrote how the process works in the *DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE* they forgot about the process?
Why would anyone need to write anything further on the topic when everything needing to be said was said in 1776?
If you google, you will find a lot of recent lib posts on how Texas cannot do this or that, and it’s like every other state. But it’s not, it entered as it’s own country NOT a territory or possession of the US.
Good post. I very much look forward to you providing any further information on this topic.
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