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The State of Texas

  • Marshall Nole said...

    This.

    If a state tried to secede the US government would slaughter those people very quickly just as Abraham Lincoln did in the Civil War. That wasn't really about slavery. It was about Lincoln not believing state's have the right to secede from the Union, meaning Federal Government overrules states' rights.

    You all should read Lincoln's Marxists.

    Right. SCOTUS addressed this issue in Texas v. White:

    When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.

    Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law. The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired. It certainly follows that the State did not cease to be a State, nor her citizens to be citizens of the Union.

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  • Beatris said...

    Right. SCOTUS addressed this issue in Texas v. White:

    When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.

    Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law. The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired. It certainly follows that the State did not cease to be a State, nor her citizens to be citizens of the Union.

    Finally, a thread dumber than "could Alabama beat a pro team?" Thank you, Texicans.

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  • amrollZ71 said...

    IF the civil war happened again today the south would almost certainly win.

    All that southern speed would be a killer.

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  • 92DT said...

    Finally, a thread dumber than "could Alabama beat a pro team?" Thank you, Texicans.

    let the record show that the thread was started by a south carolina gamecock. the % of texans in this thread is somewhere south of 3%.

    incredibly stupid op, and equally stupid responses.

    not sure which of these would be the dumbest:
    texas secession
    saban to texas
    bama beating pro team

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