March 2nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Today is the 171st anniversary of the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico.
This morning the local radio show asked what were the six flags that have flown over Texas. I got five before the answers were revealed. Can you name them?
Some interesting quotes from the Declaration:
It (The Mexican government) has failed and refused to secure on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury; that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own consciences, by the support of a national religion calculated to promote the temporal interests of its human functionaries rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms; which are essential to our defense, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments. (I like that formidable phrase 
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We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therefor of a military government – that they are unfit to be free and incapable of self-government.
The right to secede from the Union is (was?) a powerful check against an overbearing federal government. If any state deserves this right, it’s the state that was a nation before it joined the United States.
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March 5th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Letssee.. we have the 13 original colonies that became states, and then became the United States. The Republic of Texas, and the Republic of California. As well as Hawaii. Yet, the constitution gives all the other states the same rights as these original nation states. Very interesting to ponder.
What then about places like Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam? etc.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Well, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia get all of the privileges (link down) but none of the obligations, thanks to Speaker Pelosi.
March 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
So, do they have the same priviledges to secede? It would see so.
I did forgot about US Virgin Islands. How does one forget the Virgin Islands?
But I’m not sure we can call District of Columbia a nation state in context with the others.