Texas Creates State-Run Gold Depository

[MI2AZ]

Wants their $1 Billion in gold back from NY.

In Texas, where secession is always a hot topic, a state-run precious metal depository would be a necessity for the newly-formed country to back its own currency once cut off from the financial backing of the U.S government.

 

[9andaWiggle]

DAMN RIGHT! ONE NATION, CALLED "TEXAS", UNDER GOD, GIVING THE FINGER TO ALL THE LIBERTY STEALING YANKEE LIBERALS! AMEN!

YEEE HAWW!!!

 

[bbfreeburn]

I wish the hell Texas would secede.

 

[9andaWiggle]

Half of Texas does too.*


*Actual percentage of Texans wishing to secede are unknown. Author of this statement cannot be held liable for the accuracy of his outlandish claims.

 

[bbfreeburn]

In point of fact, Texas does not have the "right" to secede. There is absolutely no documentation anywhere to support that idea. In fact, it is written in the Texas state constitution that they do not have such a right.
March 15, 1866
Be it ordained by the people of Texas in Convention assembled, That we acknowledge the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof; and that an Ordinance adopted by a former Convention of the people of Texas on the 1st day of February, A.D. 1861, entitled "An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of Texas and the other States, united under the compact styled 'Constitution of the United States of America,'" be and the same is hereby declared null and void; and the right heretofore claimed by the State of Texas to secede from the Union, is hereby distinctly renounced. Passed 15th March, 1866

 

[9andaWiggle]

I've seen that too. Doubt I'll live to see Texas try to secede or withdraw from the union, but there is definitely a small faction of secessionists down here.

The state would have to start building its own nuclear weapons first... huge firepower and a real threat of total destruction of all N. America would be the only way Texas could do it - assuming they found a way to be economically and agriculturally self sufficient. See 1861-1865 - and this time the Feds have MUCH better firepower. Doing that and keeping it a secret until completion would be nearly impossible, I think.

 

[WAMO]

SO HERE IS THE RESPONSE TO THE ACTION OF 1866, "JUST KIDDING!".

 

[Robadat]

In point of fact, Texas does not have the "right" to secede. There is absolutely no documentation anywhere to support that idea. In fact, it is written in the Texas state constitution that they do not have such a right.
March 15, 1866
Be it ordained by the people of Texas in Convention assembled, That we acknowledge the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof; and that an Ordinance adopted by a former Convention of the people of Texas on the 1st day of February, A.D. 1861, entitled "An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of Texas and the other States, united under the compact styled 'Constitution of the United States of America,'" be and the same is hereby declared null and void; and the right heretofore claimed by the State of Texas to secede from the Union, is hereby distinctly renounced. Passed 15th March, 1866

Not that I think any State will attempt to secede from the Union, but can't the States rewrite their Constitutions? What would prevent Texas, or any other State for that matter, to rewrite or amend their Constitution and reclaim the right to secede?

 

[Scolai]

The colonists didn't have the right to revolt, but revolt they did...

The laws of Nature trump the laws of men. "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."

 

[bbfreeburn]

Scolai, I was wondering when someone would bring that up. We did, in fact, secede from the British empire.