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To: Terry Mross
Perry said Texas has the right to secede.

If I remember correctly, after the original colony's declared independence and became the fledgling United States, new states were added by subdividing territorial land after (sometimes long after) such land was acquired through treaty and/or purchase. So the route to statehood was from wilderness to territory to state.

Texas was unique in that it was the only candidate for statehood to have been an independent Republic when it chose to align itself with the nascent United States. They also ask for and got an "escape clause" to allow themselves to withdraw from that union at their discretion.

Regards,
GtG

68 posted on 04/15/2009 5:54:12 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray
Did a bit more digging :
"The annexation resolution (adding Texas as a state) has been the topic of some historical myths—one that remains is that the resolution granted Texas the explicit right to secede from the Union. This was a right argued by some to be implicitly held by all states at the time, up until the conclusion of the Civil War."

So the "War of Northern Aggression" caulked up that loop-hole for all time, not only for Texas but for all of the states...

Regards,
GtG

72 posted on 04/15/2009 6:12:21 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Well, I think the Union’s take on that would be that the CW revoked that. I think the Union goobermint might be in for a surprise.


83 posted on 04/15/2009 9:02:47 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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