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After Perry's comments received news coverage, Rasmussen Reports found that about 1 in 3 of those it polled believed that Texas has the right to secede from the United States, although only 18% would support secession and 75% would oppose secession. [50]
It was 15 years ago that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had heads snapping across the country for pushing the idea that his state could secede. “We were a republic. We were a stand-alone nation.
Perry's statement was widely interpreted as raising the possibility of the secession of Texas from the union, and was criticized on that basis. [134] [135] A spokesperson for Perry said that Perry "never advocated seceding". [131] Perry's statement that Texas, in joining the union, had reserved the right to leave was also widely disputed. [135 ...
Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700 (1869), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in 1869. [1] The case's notable political dispute involved a claim by the Reconstruction era government of Texas that U.S. bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the American Civil War.
The state party platform adopted in 2022 states that "Texas retains the right to secede from the United States" and calls on the Legislature to put the matter to put the measure on the statewide ...
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In December 2020, when the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit in Texas v. Pennsylvania, the chair of the Texas GOP, Allen West, suggested that Texas and other like-minded states could leave the Union. [4] [5] [6] In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas added a statement in its party platform that called for a referendum over secession ...
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