Under rules laid out by President Obama, any petition that gets 25, "signatures" in 30 days earns an official response: At least seven states have more than 30, signatures, and the Texas petition had more than , as of Nov. Here's what you should know:.
First off: Do states have the right to secede? Like "nullification" — the idea that states can unilaterally ignore a federal law they don't like — secession "is one of those extra-legal concepts that was hotly debated during the decades leading up to the Civil War," says Richard Dunham in the Houston Chronicle.
Nullification and secession threats have popped up in the years since, but the question was mostly settled at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. But the result, as we discovered in , is Civil War. Are there any exceptions? No — although lots of Texans believe their state has a special "opt-out" clause 31 percent, according to a Rasmussen poll. Part of that may be due to Gov. Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, 'one Nation, indivisible. Nevertheless, the Texas Republican Party endorsed legislation in February that would allow the state's voters to express their views on secession.
State party chair Allen West, said in an interview at the time that "Texans have a right to voice their opinions on [this] critical issue. Public sentiment does not appear to be on the secessionists' side. We hate spam too, we'll never share your email address. Texas always seems to have an inside joke about seceding from the Union, but just how plausible and powerful would the Lone Star State be if it were its own country?
First, we learn that based on the population of the state compared to the population of the United States in that about 1 in 12 Americans live in Texas. White will go down as one of the worst rulings in Supreme Court history," said Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement.
Miller's group, which was founded in Nederland, Texas, advocates statewide for Texas independence. Those looking to the U. Constitution for guidance find that the nation's guiding document is "silent" on the issue, Levinson said. Miller believes this silence gives states the right to lawfully secede. Nowhere in that list is a state prohibited from withdrawing from the union. Therefore, under the Tenth Amendment that power is reserved to the states and to the people within the state.
Still though, why do some Texans set themselves apart from the other 49 states? Levinson said both Abbott and former Gov. Rick Perry have made defining Texas as "different from the rest of the nation" part of their political careers.
In the case of a Texit, even if there is a will — there is likely no legal way because of the precedent set by Texas vs. That would turn it into something serious. Until then, it's something to treat as an oddball sort of issue.
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