Oct 13 2009
Subversive Historian – 10/13/09
Texas Constitution of 1845
Back in the day on October 13th, 1845, a majority of voters in the republic of Texas approved it to become the twenty-eighth state in the American union. As part of a political compromise, the newly ratified constitution that allowed for annexation also affirmed the right of slavery to continue in Texas under the guise of private property. With the territory officially absorbed into the union two months later, Mexico, to whom Texas had once belonged to before insurrection, considered the move an act of provocation and war. Indeed, conflict between the two nations would break out the following year, with the United States taking more land as a result.
Myths regarding the Texas constitution of 1845 continue to remain in the present including a non-existent clause allowing for the state to secede whenever it sees it fit. In fact, a new Texas Nationalist Movement has recently emerged vocally seeking separation from the United States. Many of the left say “good riddance” but I would hate to abandon my relatives in El Paso to such a fate!
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history
3 Responses to “Subversive Historian – 10/13/09”
Thanks for clarifying the Texas Constitution of 1845. But the Texas Nationalist Movement is no “recently emerged” group — we’ve been active since the mid-1990s.
We don’t base our belief in Texas independence on any inherent clause in the state constitution, nor in the fact that the treaty of annexation was never ratified. We base our cause on the fact that the federal government has violated the Constitution, continually, for dozens of years. The federal government is broken and can’t be fixed.
The Constitution is a contract between the states. Since that contract has been violated, we want a divorce. Nothing particularly right-wing or left-wing about it, we’re not some bunch of trailer-park rednecks, just folks who believe that government has run amok and it’s time to strike out on our own.
Why would you have to abandon your relatives to the fate of living in the Republic of Texas? You make it sound so terrible. You’d be free to visit them whenever you wanted and they to visit you. It wouldn’t be much different than if the lived in Canada except warmer.Don’t you think it would be better for everyone if the United States were smaller?
Dave: Texas Secessionists have been around for a long time! The current TNM is “new” in the long arc that is history.
Patricio: When you have Glenn Beck praising Texas independence, leave my relatives out of it!