Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by dragonwriter on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:01PM
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> Texas does not need permission from the federal government to secede
A majority vote within Texas cannot deprive any in the minority of the protection of the US Constitution, or absolve the US federal government of their obligations to that minority.
Such a vote might plausibly be argued to justify a negotiation process which might lead to a separation, including territorial or other accommodation to the minority that wishes to remain affiliated with the US, but absent a more specific preexisting legal/Constitutional framework for succession the right of self-determination does not mean a potentially transitory majority has an automatic right to forcibly separate the territory including an unwilling minority from the institutions of a nation to whom that minority wishes to remain affiliated.
A majority vote within Texas cannot deprive any in the minority of the protection of the US Constitution, or absolve the US federal government of their obligations to that minority.
Such a vote might plausibly be argued to justify a negotiation process which might lead to a separation, including territorial or other accommodation to the minority that wishes to remain affiliated with the US, but absent a more specific preexisting legal/Constitutional framework for succession the right of self-determination does not mean a potentially transitory majority has an automatic right to forcibly separate the territory including an unwilling minority from the institutions of a nation to whom that minority wishes to remain affiliated.