SECESSION! Texas GOP Is Talking About It. Is This Legal?
33ft/iStock/Getty Images Plus These United States rose above colony status by, essentially, seceding from Britain. Texas became one of these United...
33ft/iStock/Getty Images Plus These United States rose above colony status by, essentially, seceding from Britain. Texas became one of these United States a decade after seceding from Mexico. Now Texas State Republican Convention members are talking again about the possibility of seceding — from the United States. Critics, of course, say secession would be illegal. The Texas Tribune, for example, writes in a subtitle that the 'Civil War established that a state cannot secede.' But do wars establish anything from a legitimately legal standpoint? Only if you believe that 'might makes right.