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Originally Posted by Lord Setheris
The Texas Constitution does contain components that would allow it to secede from the union. I would be very interested to see how such a move would be handled by Washington.
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This is absolutely true.
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Originally Posted by Mannix
But the constitution of the US says that states cannot leave. In addition I believe that it is established legal precedent that in cases of conflict between the two, the US constitution supersedes state constitutions ( I could be mistaken about that, however). On top of that, didn't we kind of already fight a war over this? I know they think liberals are sissies, but do they really think the feds wouldn't have every gun, tank, and plane in the nation all over their shit in a heartbeat?
Actually, I say we war-game this scenario out in the thread, as I can't imagine there's anybody in this forum that will argue in favor of the Texas Ranger. I could be surprised, but I doubt it.
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This is not true. The federal government is meant to tie all the states together, but the power balance between the two isn't as clear-cut as it used to be. Originally, state law took precedence, but after roughly the Civil War era, it's been much more ambiguous. Most of the time, it's not an issue, because state and federal laws tend to deal with different things, but as Texas was actually brought into the union from Mexico because of the large amount of American citizens in there, and was done so by vote instead of hostile takeover like Hawaii, and because it was its own sovereign nation before that, the agreement was that Texas is now the only state that can legally cede from the union and go back to being its own country.
However, the reason they wanted to become part of the US was because of monetary reasons in the first place, so good luck to them mining sand for income when they find themselves without any real resources.
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Originally Posted by stefan
texas tried to secede once before, and the US didn't even need to take them back by force. they can leave if they want, they'll be begging to be let back in once the drug cartels move in in force.
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The drug cartels would probably be the only thing to keep them afloat. Remember, as I just said, they joined the union for monetary reasons. Texas is not so rich that it can easily support itself without outside help in various forms.