[TexasTransplant]

Your sited case is dated April 1869, the following may be of interest...

Texans voted on a revised state constitution in November 1869 and elected a state government. Once convened, the legislature voted to ratify the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution (the 13th amendment having already been fully ratified) and elected two U.S. Senators, thereby completing the requirements for reinstatement. President Grant signed the act to readmit Texas to Congressional representation on March 30, 1870, and this federal act was promulgated throughout Texas by a general order issued by General Reynolds on April 16, 1870.

TT

[decal]

True, and completely irrelevant.

The last sentence of the article says it all: "Even during the period of rebellion, however, the Court found that Texas continued to be a state."

Go find a case that challenges Texas v White, and take it all the way to the SC, and get it reversed. I promise to wait here while you do.

[1066AD]

Doesn't Texas have the option to split into five states ? Think it was Texas Monthly that had a long article on this years ago.

[Leatherneck_MT]

What's funny is, up until Lincoln's assassination, the Government maintained that the Southern States never Seceded. They were simply "states in rebellion."

How can the government then force a state to apply for readmission to something they never left?

The Union handed the South it's victory after beating them on the battlefield.

Idiots then, Idiots now. Just now they are arrogant idiots.