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Originally Posted by sg1987
"I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power." – Neal Boortz
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No, it does not, although there are many Texans who like to believe that myth and perpetuate it among themselves as a sort of wishful thinking 'common knowledge'...along with the myth that Texas is the 'only' state flag which can be flown at a height equal to the national colors (all state flags may fly equal to but not above) and that Texas may divide itself into as many as 4 other states (a proviso in the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States by Congress allowing its admission as a slave state that was later settled by the Civil War and actually moot anyway IAW the provisions of Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution).
Texas tried that secession idea once and they, along with 12 other states, got their pee-pee's whacked for it, and the reality of such 'right of secession' forever squelched.
But the myths go on.
Richard
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