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To: SeekAndFind

Secede

The Obama administration has never bothered to worry about the Constitution.


11 posted on 12/27/2010 1:00:06 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

From the “Texas Secede” web-site:

Q: Doesn’t the Texas Constitution reserve the right of Texas to secede?

A: This heavily popularized bit of Texas folklore finds no corroboration where it counts: No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1] (adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...” (note that it does not state “...subject to the President of the United States...” or “...subject to the Congress of the United States...” or “...subject to the collective will of one or more of the other States...”)

Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Constitution of the united States, explicitly or implicitly disallows the secession of Texas (or any other “free and independent State”) from the United States. Joining the “Union” was ever and always voluntary, rendering voluntary withdrawal an equally lawful and viable option (regardless of what any self-appointed academic, media, or government “experts”—including Abraham Lincoln himself—may have ever said).

Both the original (1836) and the current (1876) Texas Constitutions also state that “All political power is inherent in the people ... they have at all times the inalienable right to alter their government in such manner as they might think proper.”


123 posted on 12/27/2010 5:41:21 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Venturer

The US is no longer governed as a constitutional republic. It is functioning as a socialist police state run by fiat from corrupt elites.

Texas should just ignore the EPA and ban them from regulating the state. States can and should separate themselves from illegal federal action.


175 posted on 12/28/2010 8:09:00 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Venturer
The Obama administration has never bothered to worry about the Constitution.

Who told you secession was unConstitutional? Lincoln did, but he couldn't read. How could the founding fathers, with a straight face, rule out secession when they had done so themselves less than two decades earlier?

223 posted on 01/02/2011 3:34:43 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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