Is Texas Headed for Secession?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes February 6, 2024
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." Confederate President Jefferson Davis - States Rights
In his January 24 statement on Texas’ Constitutional right to self-defense against invasion, Gov. Greg Abbott wrote, “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States.” This sounds strikingly similar to the language in the secession ordinances of Southern states that asserted the states were united under the compact known as the Constitution which lays out certain responsibilities of the federal government and the executive branch toward the states. It was the abdication of those responsibilites that triggered the Southern states to “dissolve the union.”