Would you move to Texas if....

[been]

only if Ron Paul was president.

 

[Lone Wolf '49]

Moot point, Texas cannot secede from the union.

Being old uneducated as I am, why can TX not secede?

 

[Biggsly]

Nope. I spent too many years working in sw Texas. Ugly, hot, flat, and dry.

 

[cmhbob]

Typically, the people who say there is not right to secession rely on White vs Texas, a case from the Civil War. SCOTUS ruled that since the Articles of Confederation created a perpetual union, and the Constitution created a more perfect version of that, then the founders did not intend there to be a right to secession.

Then again, the Tenth Amendment says

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Those who claim a right to secede fall back on that.

 

[druryj]

Being old uneducated as I am, why can TX not secede?

'Cause the Federal Government won't allow that. A bunch of folks tried that back around the mid-1800'd and that just didn't work out to good for anybody involved. But I wouldn't do it anyway. Something about some silly old oath I took a long time ago about "support and defend..."

 

[Pulp]

If they do, maybe they'll take McCurtain County with them. No one in OK gov't cares about us anyway. Except Jerry Ellis.

 

[andrsnsm]

Since I was born in Texas and love Texas (except the longhorns) I would consider it but probably stay put at the end of the day. I assume I would have dual citizenship :-)

 

[Lone Wolf '49]

'Cause the Federal Government won't allow that. A bunch of folks tried that back around the mid-1800'd and that just didn't work out to good for anybody involved. But I wouldn't do it anyway. Something about some silly old oath I took a long time ago about "support and defend..."

Still, there may be something out there that when TX joined the Union that they have the right to do so. Just asking all of the experts out there?

 

[druryj]

Still, there may be something out there that when TX joined the Union that they have the right to do so. Just asking all of the experts out there?

Nope. You don't get a choice in the matter. Once in; in for the duration. Besides; then you'd have to root for the Longhorns.

 

[tntrex]

if lord dinglebarry doesnt want to give up power in 4 yrs, hell yes. But I figure we'd just join 'em anyways.