Also, if i remember the states willingly joined the union on the presumption they could keep their electoral college votes, and autonomy. Based off the way the federal govt is operating, all the states in the midwest can leave the union because the federal gov broke the agreement that originally allowed them to join in the first place.
super interesting point. i admit i don't know enough about history to verify this, but if true you've certainly got a good case. i wouldn't even call it succession since the states rights were violated by the federal government, so they initiated conflict.
The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States.
This was written in 1912 .... Texas already knew about the JQ and what not seceding would lead to even a century ago
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