Should Texans Have Sovereignty - 1730 Words

Should Texans Have Sovereignty? On November, 9th, 2012 a petition, containing 125,746 signatures, was submitted to the United States Federal Government asking if Texas could peacefully secede from the Union (Peacefully grant, 2012, p. 1). Some Texans claimed â€Å"Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect its citizens standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government† (Peacefully grant, 2012, p. 1). However, with a Texan population of over 25million it is quite†¦show more content†¦In fact, the federal government responded to the petition for Texan secession by declining the request (Peacefully grant, 2012, p. 1). The executive branch, established that the Union should remain united and that grievances should be handled thro ugh measures of the ballot, not running from the issues at hand (para. 3). In addition, they used this Abraham Lincoln quote to support their decision, â€Å"in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. In the years that followed, more than 600,000 Americans died in a long and bloody civil war that vindicated the principle that the Constitution establishes a permanent union between the States. And shortly after the Civil War ended, the Supreme Court confirmed that [t]he Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States (Peacefully grant, 2012, para. 3). Next, a fundamental philosophy of Texan separatist is the idea of state rights. For example, Philips (2013) mentions that states like Texas can threaten the economy by romanticizing nullification of federal laws different from elected official’s ideas (para. 3). Accordingly, many scholars agree that nullification an d secession is illegal (Rakove, 2014, p. 82). In the writings of Rakove et al., (2014) he explained that there is no mention of nullification, secession, or sovereignty in the constitution,