Can Texas secede from the US?

From The People of Texas

We Texans love y'all, but we'll have to take action if Obama wins

president over McCain. We'll miss you too.

Texas has given all those complainers plenty of time to get used to the results. After seeing the whiners along the campaign route, the folks from Texas are considering taking matters into our hands.

Here is our solution:

#1: Elect Barak Obama President of the United States. (All 49 states.)

#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic Of Texas.

So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

1. NASA is just south of Houston, Texas. (We will control the space industry.)

2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.

3. Defense Industry. (We have over 65% of it) The term "Don’t mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.

4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.

5. Natural Gas - Again we have all we need and it's too bad about those northern states. John Kerry will figure a way to keep them warm....

6. Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, Etc, Etc. The list goes on and on.

7. Health Centers - We have the largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world and other large health planning centers.

8. We have enough colleges to keep us going: UT Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University, Ivy grows better in the south anyway

9. We have a ready supply of workers. (Just open the border when we need some)

10. We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.

11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple Texas Rangers.

12. We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables and lets not forget seafood from the gulf. And everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic Of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only Mr. Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.

Signed, The People in Texas

Have a nice day!

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We, the other states of America do not need to secede from the union including Texas. The US constitution allows the people to disband the government of the United States when such government oppresses the people and breaks the law. From a US patriot who still has the original spirit of our revolutionary ancestors.

No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1](adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...” (note that it does not state “...subject to the President of the United States...” or “...subject to the Congress of the United States...” or “...subject to the rest of the United States...”)

Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Constitution of the united States, explicitly or implicitly disallows the secession of Texas (or any other “free and independent State”) from the United States. Joining the “Union” was ever and always voluntary, rendering voluntary withdrawal an equally lawful and viable option (regardless of what any self-appointed academic, media, or government “experts”—including Abraham Lincoln himself—may have ever said).

Both the original (1836) and the current (1876) Texas Constitutions also state that “All political power is inherent in the people ... they have at all times the inalienable right to alter their government in such manner as they might think proper.”

Likewise, each of the united States is “united” with the others explicitly on the principle that “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.” [3]

this is just more political bullshit.......it was the Southern states. Secessionists argued that states were sovereign and had the right to withdraw from the Union. does anyone remember history??? Opponents countered that the Constitution created a sovereign union that, once entered into, could never be broken. hummmm well eventually, the question was put to the big test in 1812, then settled "permanently" on the battlefields of the Civil War". if you remember the south lost the war.

You mean Barack Obama or John McCain, who has vice president on his side with an "Alaskan first, Alaska always" motto instead of country first?

First it's all this news of Sarah Palin being part of the Alaska Independence Party, and now Texas. Should we seceede all 50 states and add another 50 countries to the map and let our chlidren achingly memorise 50 more unnecessary added countries? Hello former United States of America!

Amen. Secede Texas secede!

Obama is a socialist. Texans did not vote him into office and I believe we should not recognize him as President. It is time we go back to our roots and represent ourselves as a free and independent state. It is TIME FOR CHANGE and it starts in the "LONE STAR" state of Texas.

They will secede when a weak communist becomes president. OOPS, that might just happen.

Oh I wish we could, we are the better state, and with Obama as president elect, it made me think about that even more.

Not "legally."

It is a common misconception that Texas reserved the right to secede.

The final resolution sent by Texas to Congress had the "right" deleted.

Welcome to my country, The Republic of Texas. If you do not like our politics, you are more than welcome to leave ASAP. My family fought and died for this country. My grand-fathers, I'm sure, are rolling over in their grave. They would never have let a socialist rule their Republic. TEXANS for Ron Paul.