States Confirm and Declare Sovereignty

[Gungnir]

I did a run down on a bunch of them last night and most are being read in the State Congress currently.

I think that in general it's saber rattling by the states to scare the Federal Government (although NH probably is not just saber rattling), if any come to anything I'm pretty sure that we'll find out on any major news outlet.

 

[MaterDei]

While I certainly support the idea of state's rights this statement is simply untrue.

TX: (not officially declared recently, but is supposedly sovereign since it was never willfully ceded to the States - put on planning list)

Texas is NOT sovereign. Texas WILLFULLY requested annexation into the U.S. In fact, it wasn't until Polk was elected under a manafest destiny platform that Texas got its way. The annexation document does NOT give Texas the right to leave the union. Even if it did (which it didn't), Texas DID attempt to leave the union and join the CSA. We all know how that story ended.

 

[expvideo]

Interesting doesn't begin to describe this. I'm very surprised to see my home state of Washington on the list. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I imagine that it won't go anywhere. If our country has another civil war, I highly doubt that it will be started by politicians.

 

[Boba Fett]

From the Texas Constitution, Section 1, Articles 1 & 2:

THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS

Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.

Sec. 2. INHERENT POLITICAL POWER; REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.

I like how Section 2 has a line similar to one in the Declaration of Independence: "...they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient."

And from the Declaration: "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."


BTW, is it just me or did the Colonies break away from England over far less atrocities than what our current government is subjecting us to?