Is it true that Texas could, if it wanted to (highly unlikely), leave the US and declare independence?

Question

I think I heard somewhere once that when Texas joined the Union there was a caveat which allowed Texas to leave the Union at a later date if it wanted to and that Texas was the only State which was, legally, able to do this?

Answer 1

Hawaii was its own country until coerced to become part of the states in 1949.  The US told the Hawaiians that either join as a state or we won't trade with your sugar.  

Answer 2

those were the rights given to that state whe it annexed to the US after being it's own coutry for 10 years

Answer 3

Any state could but I don't think it would be pretty. Montana threatened to if the Supreme court overturned the 2nd amendment.

If any of them try I am moving to that state.

I do think something in the constitution prohibits doing it legally but the declaration of independence also said that if we do not like our government we can overthrow it.

There is an Indian reservation in our country now that is its own country now.  

Answer 4

Technically, any state can leave the US at any time.  But we saw what happened when the Confederacy actually tried it in 1862.  

President Buchanan's Attorney General was asked for an opinion on whether it was Constitutional and he concluded that it was, so he did not do anything about it.  But Lincoln, used their confiscation of the New Orleans Mint and Fort Sumter as an excuse to declare a State of Insurrection and begin the Civil War.  The Southern strategy during the entire war was simply to be in a position to negotiate peace.

Of course any Union the USSR was also technically able to secede under the Stalin Constitution.  Tibet is an Autonomous Republic.  Ask yourself - Do you think the UK would actually give up Scotland?  What happened to the Quebec independence movement?  Have the Basques, the Kurds, or the Northern Irish Republicans been successful in seceding?  

Countries will come up with a plan to keep their unions together if they can.  Otherwise, independence is decided militarily as in  Yugoslavia, Eritrea, Sudan or Europe's Colonies.  Sometimes, it seems to go peacefully, but that is only because the government realizes it just doesn't have the will or resources to prevent independence.  Few separate peacefully as the division of the Czech and Slovak Republics did (or the remapping that occurred after the Napoleonic Wars and WWI, but that is only because of a power vacuum created by the departure of external military forces.

Answer 5

If they were to, would they take the bush family and leave the rest of the world alone?

Answer 6

Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.

Texas is the only state that was once its own country and has the right to secede or become five small states at any time.

Answer 7

I wouldn't want to be there if they tried it.

They'd call it the Second American Revolution.

Answer 8

it might be for everyones best interest if they did~!!!

then none of their citizense could become President of the United States anymore~!!!