It’s their business because the government of Texas is subservient to the government of the United States. The South fought a war of rebellion against the United States government and lost.
The losers in war do not get to dictate the terms of their surrender. It doesn’t matter that a hundred fifty years have passed. You lost the right to fly that flag in an American governmental capacity when you lost that war. One of the outcomes of the war: the flag of your country is the stars and stripes and no other.
I don’t care if you fly that flag in your front yard; you are back jn the union, and your rights under the Constitution have been restored. I care very much that an arm of the State is issuing a flag other than the American on state documents, which is what a license plate is.
I have to put up with people flying flags other than the American flag in my state, California, in their front yards; I do not have to put up with foreign flags on official state documents or in front of state buildings. That goes for the Confederate flag.
There is no room in our increasingly balkanized country for any but the American flag.
Re-read my post: I meant that Texas is doing the right thing in opposing those who would force the government to issue the plate, not that Texas is already issuing the plate.
I hope you don't call yourself a conservative with that keyboard.
>>The South fought a war of rebellion against the United States government and lost.<<
Good grief man, do your homework.
Malarkey!
Once a state government starts allowing "special" license plates with logos from schools, non-profit organizations, political organizations, etc., they open the door to free speech issues, even as it relates to a "document" issued by the state.
Just keep your ass in CA. The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Texas will have no problem with having this flag on their license plates.
“The losers in war do not get to dictate the terms of their surrender.”
Exactly.The Thadeus Stevens Congress in 1866 passed the first Reconstruction Act. That allowed the military to move into the Southern states and establish military governors - dictatorships.
(BTW, I’m quite impressed by the manner that Stevens stripped President Johnson of his title as Commander-in-Chief.)
The 1866 Reconstruction Act dictated to the southern states that they must vote “yea” for the 14th amendment in order to be allowed back in the Union.
Only after 1865. Before that, as originally designed, the USA was a republic with the states having "numerous and indefinite" powers and the Federal few and specific powers. So LEARN history, please.