The Lone Star State will find out on Saturday just how eager its Republicans are to reconstitute the Republic of Texas.
A state GOP committee in Austin passed a secession resolution on Friday that will require a full-party vote on Saturday. The non-binding measure would gauge the desire among state Republicans to secede.
“If the federal government continues to disregard the constitution and the sovereignty of the State of Texas, the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation,” the measure reads, the Chronicle reported Friday.
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Pro-secession Texans would likely prepare its citizens for the federal government’s reaction by citing the Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Secession is the correct medicine, but inserted backwards. what we need is for the states to undertake *Abolition* of the federal government, not secession from it.
I guess that make me an abolitionist?
I read the article and they mentioned tha an 1861 supreme court ruling ruled that secession was illegal. What law did they bas this on?
Sadly, the sub-title reads…
“Non-binding independence measure headed for full-party vote Saturday”
Sending a message is fine but unless and until we are willing to organize and ‘bind’ ourselves to the cause of liberty little if anything will change.
if this is just grandstanding then whats the sense of it, if you truly want to be independent then you have to put your both feet forward and just do it.