Timeline for Does Texas have a legal right to leave the Union or secede?
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| Jun 28, 2021 at 3:27 | comment | added | kisspuska | @Raphael Other than for the reasons phoog described, under the Montevideo Convention, Texas is not "state"; the U.S. is. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 23:33 | comment | added | phoog | @Raphael From Wikipedia: "Article 1 is qualified by Article 11 because it prohibits using military force to gain recognition of sovereignty." Therefore, the US can prevent unilateral secession by sending the army to the state attempting to secede. If the US chose not to do that, it would be allowing the secession, and the secession would no longer be unilateral. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 5:47 | comment | added | Raphael | Article 1 seems to imply (to this layman of law) that a state is inherently self-defined and does not need any another states' justification. Hence, if the State of Texas were to declare itself independent (and fulfill the criteria stated in said article), there'd be nothing the remainder of the USA could do about it, short of violating international law they have ratified themselves (not that they were above that...). | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | phoog | @Raphael how would the Montevideo convention affect the issue? | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | Raphael | Doesn't the Montevideo convention supersede this by now? | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | phoog | @cnst that is a bit of spin. The actual act readmits Texas to "congressional representation" which does not necessarily imply that it had ceased to belong to the union -- only that it had ceased to be represented in congress. See tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/30march1870.html. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 19:43 | comment | added | cnst | well, apparently, as per texassecede.com/faq.php#texvwhite, the President of the United States has later admitted Texas back into the Union, which makes it contradict with the fact that it never left in the first place | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 19:30 | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |