Texas secession resolution
passes GOP committee, Non-binding independence measure
headed for full-party vote Saturday, by Douglas Ernst, 12/4/15, WND
The Lone Star State will find out on
Saturday just how eager its Republicans are to reconstitute the Republic of
Texas.
A state GOP committee in Austin
passed a secession resolution on Friday that will require a full-party vote on
Saturday. The non-binding measure would gauge the desire among state
Republicans to secede.
“If the federal government continues
to disregard the constitution and the sovereignty of the State of Texas, the
State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation,” the
measure reads, the Chronicle
reported Friday.
State Republican Executive Committee
member Tanya Robertson of Galveston and Brazoria counties introduced the
resolution due to constituents’ demands.
A Declaration of Independence from
Mexico was issued March 1, 1836, to found the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston
was subsequently elected president and general of the Texas army, which would
then take on Mexico’s Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
“Let’s make their victory worse than
a defeat,” Texas Col. William B. Travis said of Santa Anna’s 4,000-man army as
they approached the Alamo in San Antonio, historian Larry Schweikart writes in
“A Patriot’s History of the United States.” Texas would eventually go on to
join the Union on Dec. 29, 1845.
If the SREC approves the secession
resolution on Saturday, then it will appear on the March 1, 2016,
Republican primary ballot.
The Chronicle managed to interview
13 of 40 members of the SREC this week. Six members supported a vote on
independence, six opposed, and one declined to comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1861
that secession is illegal, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote to a
citizen on the issue in 2006, “If there was any constitutional issue resolved
by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge
of Allegiance, ‘one Nation, indivisible.’),” the Wall Street Journal
reported.
Pro-secession Texans would likely
prepare its citizens for the federal government’s reaction by citing the
Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object 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.”
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/texas-secession-resolution-passes-gop-committee/
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