Texas is a Republic. They used to be their own country. They joined under the express conditions they could leave at any time. I believe they are the only state that has that power.
Negative. We are allowed to break up into five other states legally, but no state is "legally" allowed to secede. Secession is outlawed by our laws which is hilarious considering how we formed.
Sedition/rebellion are, but it's debatable if that applies to STATES or not.
Secession is "outlawed" by a Supreme Court ruling in White Vs Texas, which everyone quotes as saying secession is illegal. That isn't what the ruling said. The ruling said that there is no Constitutional mechanism for secession, and so it is illegal UNLESS it succeeds.
That is, if the secessionists win their war, then that magically makes it legal.
So the reason - per Supreme Court - that the Civil war secession was illegal but the US secession from the British Empire WAS legal is because the Revolutionary War succeeded.
Texas is a Republic. They used to be their own country. They joined under the express conditions they could leave at any time. I believe they are the only state that has that power.
Negative. We are allowed to break up into five other states legally, but no state is "legally" allowed to secede. Secession is outlawed by our laws which is hilarious considering how we formed.
Actually, secession is outlawed by no law.
Sedition/rebellion are, but it's debatable if that applies to STATES or not.
Secession is "outlawed" by a Supreme Court ruling in White Vs Texas, which everyone quotes as saying secession is illegal. That isn't what the ruling said. The ruling said that there is no Constitutional mechanism for secession, and so it is illegal UNLESS it succeeds.
That is, if the secessionists win their war, then that magically makes it legal.
So the reason - per Supreme Court - that the Civil war secession was illegal but the US secession from the British Empire WAS legal is because the Revolutionary War succeeded.
No one ever mentions that part.