We should focus more on States Rights and throwing off the shackles of the Federal Governemnt

The goal really isn´t about secession,it´s about a protest of the Obamastyle ran government and the loss of the Constitution. People just don´t have a lot of options in protesting the government and people don´t care if they hold massive protests in the streets because they´re all white.

Obama´s plan was always to create a minority majority and he pulled it off by opening the borders and stopping deportations the past 4 years.According the republican pundits,politicians and advisers we should just jump on this illegal bandwagon instead of pushing for self deportation measures.

It´s a cop out and cowardice to say there´s too many to deport so let´s give them a welcome wagon instead. Stop the welfare to anchor baby mommas and watch how fast they flee back to their own country.

The whole anchor baby provision was really set a longtime ago to assure blacks got citizenship,it had nothing to do with outsiders plopping in here for welfare.

An insignificant remora, writing for Time as he swims alongside the DC sharks, declares secession illegal.

I usually avoid the express, but DUH!

Far too many of these punks in the press corps, eager to release their inner hall monitors.

The Fed does not own the States and it certainly does not own me. I am a free man bound only by Natural Law.

The federal government no longer follows the law, why should the states be concerned about it? If it becomes necessary to throw off a dictatorship, I´m in.

You may not see the states seceding, but you´re sure going to see a lot of people seceding from the economy. As we become more like Europe, one of the ways we´ll be copying them will be in tax evasion and an underground economy. People who feel cheated by the government will themselves start cheating the government. Watch for tax revenues to plummet even though they will be raising the rates.

We can´t LEGALLY have a foreigner for president, the gov´t can´t LEGALLY force its citizens to buy something they don´t want, the courts can´t LEGALLY legislate from the bench...See where I´m going?

#7 The frightful thought that came to mind is Courts. Obama now has the opportunity to stack the quourt with at least 3 Justices to assure a 5 justice liberal majority. Possibly 6 with the Chief Justice Roberts.

#7, if you are willing to sit in jail for your beliefs (think very seriously about this) I am with you.

Everbody don´t think for a second it won´t go that far.

Was it "legal" for the original 13 colonies to secede from England in 1776?

It may not secede, but its state Legislature (and only its state Legislature has the right to do it) can legally split the Lone Star state into five states, each with (most likely) two Republican US Senators.

ta-da!

It´s a reaction to being outvoted again by Democrat constituencies on the coasts that are bankrupting he nation and whose own Democrat-run states are going bankrupt as well.

I´m fine with it. If Texas leaves the union, I hope Oklahoma follows. I´ll vote for that.

The White House has expanded their enemies list, via the "petition" process. That was obvious.

Can Texas resign our membership in the Union? Yes, of course we can. The 10th amendment gives us that authority. The US Constitution prevents Congress from denying a resignation from the Union.

The question is "Do we take back our US Constitution rights, or do we create a more perfect union?". That is up to us.

Can a person whose father neither was born here nor ever became a citizen become president of the United States?

Not legally.

The author infers from the back that our Constitution does not mention the right to secede, that States therefore do not have that right. That would be shocking news to the Founders. Until Andrew Jackson, most everyone in America assumed that States had the right to pull out. Even up until Lincoln declared War, most newspapers in the North were fine with the South seceding. That is, until they figured out that free trade ports in the new South would decimate trade at the tariff-hungry ports of the North.

It could be done now because the military will not fire upon the states, world opinion would not back it up either. More important the 0bama voters don´t have the brains or the courage to stop it.

will Texas grant a citizenship to a very red family leaving in a very blue state?

14, you can’t do the latter until you do the former.

It is most certainly legal now and it was legal back in 1860.

I truly hope the current secession talk prompts more people to reconsider what an absolutely horrible president and human being Lincoln was.

Hey, we all can´t move to Texas. But Texas will be home to the capital of the new United States of America that´s coming.

#2 Is right on about the anchor babies. I live in a community north of Houston in which there are several homes owned by Mexicans and are used only for housing pregnant Mexicans who come here and have their babies. It´s probably a very profitable business. Just another way of destroying this once great country. We will end up with a citizenry that has no connection, no idea what it means to be an American and really doesn´t want to. They are just coming for the freebies period.

Could the thirteen original colonies "legally" secede from the British Empire? Nope. They did it anyway. We have an illegitimate and unlawful government that completely ignores the Constitution. Screw legal.

"If you want to use force against me, bring guns."

The Mafia and the government have something in common: If you try to quit the gang you will be destroyed. Lincoln proved it. To him, maintaining the union was more important than maintaining the liberty of the union. We see where that has gotten us. Thanks Abe.
What this will hopefully be is a wake up call to the few politicians with a conscience and a true love of country, that something is very, very wrong.

#18, of course.

However the process will go a lot faster if you bring at least 10,000 rounds of ammo with you.

Liberals think secession is preposterous, but it is a common event in history: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Roman Empire, India, Korea, Vietnam. Scotland wants their own Parliament. There are separatists movements in Tibet, Quebec, Basques in Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey. Cypress is divided. The U.S. had civil war. But the Liberals guffaw, and I despise them.

Lets not call it secession.
Texans are simply asserting their right of self-determination.

First, send an envoy to the UN.

Obama will never defy his future employer.

All states joined the union FREELY and thus have the right to withdraw from that union. If they don´t then our government has exceeded the Constitution.

Actually yes..it can. And it can take everything in it within it´s original borders when Texas came into the Union....stick to what you know Adam instead of pontificating on what you have no clue about.

When did "the united states of America" become "the United States of America"? The former described a loose coalition of autonomous states, the latter became obligated parts of a whole.

#6 - I´ve been saying the same thing. A couple of anecdotal items: 1. In a small independent restaurant, pay at the register with cash and watch how often the cash register drawer is opened instead of a sale rang up; 2. As someone in Finance at large corporations, much of the theft and pilferage that I noticed occurred was perpetrated by people who felt that they were not getting paid "fair" - and the person would come right out and say so.

A constitutional amendment ratified by 3/4 of the states is about the only way a state could secede.

If the First Mooslim has his way, there won´t be much to secede from. Buy your Texas pesos asap. Thanks to tim geithner, you´ll need a dump truck load of dollars to get a loaf of bread.

King George had an attorney on his legal team named Adam Cohen; is this THAT Adam Cohen?

If so, is he allowed to bill twice for the same advice to different clients; especially, when it turned out so spectacularly bad the first time?

The sates certainly have the right, legal and otherwise, to secede. In practice it would be difficult consdering how attached people (and states) are to the federal teat.

The Union knew it was legal. It´s why they never actually tried Jefferson Davis for treason. If the courts found him not guilty it would mean the federal government promulgated an illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Could we get that lucky and could Texas handle the mas immigration of 250 million Americas into it borders? Most would gladly go there just to escape the Obama destruction of a once great nation.

"The Constitution, which provides processes for new states to enter the union and for current states to divide or reconfigure, does not have a provision for states to leave the union."

10th Amendment does. It is backed up by the 9th Amendment.

Interesting that a journalist has not even read the Bill of Rights. Probably boring....

The constitution is the law of the land that supports the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states that we have the right and the responsibility to throw off tyrannical government.
Secession is one of the ways this can be accomplished. However, the remedy that will work better today, is to have State legislatures with the guts to stand up to DC.
In their discussions this is one of the primary duties of State legislators, to stand in opposition to the over reach of the feds.

Apologies, my last sentence should read, In their discussion the founders said that this was one of the main duties of the State legislatures, to stand in opposition to the over reach of the feds.