TX Eagle Forum on TTC, Illegals, etc.

[Matthewcloseborders]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas

Interesting

[CrocketsGhost]

Well, I won't be celebrating Texas independence until we are again recognized as independent. Texas currently exists in a state of legal limbo, given that it was never lawfully readmitted to the Union and that it never relinquished its lawful status as an independent republic after its lawful secession (a right reserved during its first admission to the Union). The situation was well-known to politicians and judges and was referred to as the "Texas dilemma" as late as 1896, the last time that the US Supreme Court deliberated (but did not resolve) the legal status of Texas. Many of the Texas governors have been aware of the fact that Texas is not, strictly speaking, one of the states of the Union, as evidenced by the fact that Governor Stevenson made a separate declaration of war before committing Texas troops to the US military during WWII. The fact is also demonstrated in flag protocol, whereby Texas is the only "state" allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the US flag, a distinction reserved for sovereign nations of equal status and denied to political subdivisions.

BTW - There are those who will tell you that this distinction is "urban legend," but that is not the case as demonstrated by comparing the flag codes of the US and Texas:

Title IV, Ch. 1 Sec. 7

(e) The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.

Texas Title 11, Subtitle A, Section 3100.055

[quote:11w15wp7](b) If the state flag and the flag of the United States are
displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs at the same location:
(1) the flags should be displayed on flagpoles or
flagstaffs of the same height

Wow, Texas is not part of the united states of America. So Mr good hair is really your president? Really I'm just asking.[/quote:11w15wp7]
No. If anything, he would be the governor of an occupying power. Technically, Texas already has a President.