Incorrect. I did not make the claim. The SCOTUS made the claim. The SCOTUS said that the idea of "perpetual union" is in the US Constitution (that the US Constitution strengthens the principle). I just told you where the idea is found, why it is "unconstitutional" for a state to try to leave, and why Texas can never leave the U.S. It is just an emotional pipe dream for some Texans who have big hearts but little brains.
Texas cannot legally leave the Union. The U.S. cannot legally allow for Texas to leave the Union. The only way for Texas to leave the Union would be for Texas to defeat the United States, which will never happen. If they tried, and the U.S. surrendered on terms Texas could leave then Texas would be defunded federally and be an enemy of the U.S. (it would start out with no banking system, no GNP, practically no armed military, etc.). If the U.S. did not take it back as a territory then another country would (Texas could not even defend itself against Mexico). It would become a hub of terrorism.
But since about half of Texans are Democrats, I doubt very seriously they will ever even seriously try to leave the Union (the notion will be defeated from within, so the US will not have to remind Texas that it voluntarily entered into a perpetual union).
It is fun to think about, though.
No. What you were first saying was that the Confederate States never seceded because the Union was indestructible. But you're now trying to use a Supreme Court ruling, of 1869 to prove your point. And I have explained why that doesn't work. Lot of water under the bridge from 1861 to 1869.
Whether Texas or any other state in the Union can now legally secede is immaterial. They could secede legally and did in 1861. And the only reason they can't legally do it now as you say....is the bayonet.
In December of 1865 the 39th Congress met. "Indeed, by the end of its deliberations, the Thirty-ninth Congress had publicly declared that no legal state governments existed in the other ten states of the South." (We The People, Bruce Akerman, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 101)
The Union was not indestructible under the Constitution of 1787. The right to secede existed. The South seceded. The North made war against the South to bring them back into this glorious union. And of course, the Yankee Federal power would do the same today.
The nation is already defeated within. Tell me about Texas voluntary entrance. And if when they entered, 'voluntarily', why doesn't their Article 1, Sec. 2 apply, which states they can also abandon that government?
One would have doubted not long ago that Bolsheviks would be sitting in places of political power in the U.S. But they are.
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