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Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social |
In 1860-61, 7 of the 11 seceding states called the US Constitution a "compact" in their ordinances of secession.
Yes, Texas was one of them.
www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/...
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BearPondBoy🍦
@bearpondboy.bsky.social
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All extremely sound and reasonable arguments against, notwithstanding, just the idea of Texas actually breaking away fills me with the kind of childlike glee most Americans [understandably] reserve for Florida. To rid ourselves of the incessant and unfounded hubris, alone!
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BearPondBoy🍦
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Welp.
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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I'm no historian, but IIRC, things didn't work out so great for Texas the last time they were an independent nation. Lasted all of, what, 9 years?
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CornPop
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I learned that in class. You lived it
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@jiminnh.bsky.social
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McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 404- 405 (1819) "The Government of the Union then...is, emphatically and truly, a Government of the people. In form and in substance, it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." (1/2)
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Tom Higgins
@interestedparty.bsky.social
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December 24, 1860. "Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation."
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