This matter was settled 150 years ago. No state can secede from the US legally. Doing so is considered an act of war against the US, thus starting the next Civil War. The only time Texas really had this right was from 1845-the end of the Civil War. After readmittance into the US, the right to secede was changed to the right to break up into multiple, smaller states giving the region of Texas more house members, as well as more senators in DC. Texit is a pipe dream that leads to war. Which may not be a bad thing when you think about it. Especially if other states join in the festivities!
This is what our founders intended: The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the states; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the states chooses to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disapprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly either by force or right.
"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States." - Alexander Hamilton
"A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the 'social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact." -Blacks Law Dictionary
This matter was settled 150 years ago. No state can secede from the US legally. Doing so is considered an act of war against the US, thus starting the next Civil War. The only time Texas really had this right was from 1845-the end of the Civil War. After readmittance into the US, the right to secede was changed to the right to break up into multiple, smaller states giving the region of Texas more house members, as well as more senators in DC. Texit is a pipe dream that leads to war. Which may not be a bad thing when you think about it. Especially if other states join in the festivities!
Oh, so now we’re worried about the legality of things?
I can work with that. If the federal government decides to enforce the laws they have on the books, then I don’t think Texas needs to leave.
Thats a win/win scenario if I’ve ever seen one.
This is what our founders intended: The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the states; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the states chooses to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disapprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly either by force or right.
"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States." - Alexander Hamilton
"A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the 'social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact." -Blacks Law Dictionary