RE: Texas looks to follow UK's example
June 26, 2016 at 6:21 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2016 at 6:23 am by Redbeard The Pink.)
(June 26, 2016 at 6:03 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Honestly, I couldn't care less if Texas gets its independence. I was merely commenting on the issue because Americans have been flocking to the Brexit threads and bitching.
abaris Wrote:I hope you don't think, I'm feeling Schadenfreude. But I'm honestly interested, based on my - limited - knowledge of the civil war. What legal document actually prevents secession. Other than precedence, I mean.
I'd like to know as well. You say I don't know a lot about your history and you may be right, so why don't you enlighten me, Thump? Do tell.
Texas tried to secede circa the American Civil War, and at that time it was ruled by the SCOTUS that the Union is insoluble by state actions, and I think the case was Texas v White. Essentially, the court ruled it Unconstitutional to secede, so the document in question is the Constitution, technically.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
