Succession Threads: Merged

[Madusa]

Don't you think Barry would go to war? Would the FED. finally build a fence to keep out those pesky Texan immigrants? Texas could import from any other country and collect tariff money and not share it with the USA. Go Texas

[Ashton]

A huge part of the security industry is in texas as well as data storage... I'm talking guys with 15 million dollar quotas for a part of the state of texas. Whereas, a comparable job in colorado would only hold a 2-3 million dollar quota. The gov will never let this happen though.

[Byte Stryke]

would you let your golden goose leave?

I think the response from the WH is going to be a call to the Governor of Texas "Quell that shit."

[alxone]

i was told by a facebook friend that without ft hoods money Texas economy would collapse

[Whistler]

Most States entered the Union voluntarily and there is nothing in The Constitution that prevents States from voluntarily withdrawing from that Union however Mr. Lincoln acting outside lawful authority labeled it "rebellion", "treasonous" and a "threat to the Government", we know the rest. The Constitution of Texas does not explicitly allow for succession (nothing that precludes it either) but it does allow for Texas to split into four additional States and it did join the union as a Sovereign Republic under a "Joint Resolution for Annexation" subject only to "The Constitution of the United States" not "...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...".

"governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" and "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends [i.e., protecting life, liberty, and property], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government" and "when a long train of abuses and usurpations...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."

Texas is one of few States with the resources and infrastructure to actually have a chance at pulling it off however the Federal Government would never allow it. As was the case with the South, economic drivers will justify any atrocity to retain the resource. Sort of like the Civil War was about slavery...

[BushMasterBoy]

Techs Ass.....LOL

[lifeon2]

Hmmm lets see they have oil, shipping, fishing industry, huge agricultural assets.....yeah they can do it.

[dwalker460]

I assume that the newly independent Republic of Texas would insist on a mutual defense treaty with the United States that it despises so much?

You think anyone in Texas think they need the US Govt for defense?? Shit son, the rest of the world is afraid Texas will secede. First mission- invade Mexico and quell that shit. Get a little payback for Santa Anna, and sort out this whole "border" issue". Would be funny seeing Mexico annexed as "South Texas". I bet even New Mehico and Arizona would get in on that shit. Solve the illegal problem the old fashion way, through invasion, domination, and annexation.
Next up, kick that sick bastard out of Columbia, and shut down the Gulf O Mehico to furreners who want to drill oil, fish coastal waters, and otherwise generally muck with American... scuse me TEXICAN, commerce.
Texas unleashed should make Mexico and South America very very nervous...

[asmo]

[dwalker460]

Yeah, Ijoke with my Canadian friends that if they get too uppity we will move Texas in next to them. They do not like that idea...