Texas Lawmaker Files ‘TEXIT’ Bill To Prompt Citizen Vote On Exploring Secession From U.S.

Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton submitted Monday’s bill to the state legislature. If passed, it would permit Texans the right to vote in next year’s general election if they wish. Lone Star State should be reaffirmed its independence.

Slaton filed in Texas House of Representatives the Texas Independence Referendum Act. This would allow residents to decide the future of the state by asking them to vote on whether lawmakers should create a commission that will investigate the possibility of Texas secession from the Union. Additional recommendations could be made to the legislature.

“All political power rests in the People of Texas, and they deserve to have an opportunity to make their voice heard about the future of Texas,” Slaton stated this in an email statement to The Daily Wire

One of Texas’s largest grassroots nationalist movements, the Texas Nationalist Movement, has filed the latest bill in state legislature. It follows a long-standing push for the south to become an independent nation.

Texas Nationalist Movement, a coalition of roughly 440,000 Texans representing all political levels, is leading the charge in the “so-called” Texas Nationalist Movement. “TEXIT” Since 2005, coalition has been working to achieve independence from the federal government.

The Daily Wire heard from President Daniel Miller that the group represents Texas better than either Republican or Democratic parties.

“At the end of the day, the people of Texas want that right of self-government,” Miller said. “They do not feel like they’re being represented in a system where they feel crushed under the weight of 180,000 pages of federal laws, rules, and regulations administered by two and a half million unelected bureaucrats.”

A bicameral commission of senator and house representatives will develop a plan to address four critical issues related to Texas independence if the bill is passed by the Texas legislature. These issues cover constitutional and statutory questions, as well as international treaties, agreements and negotiations with federal officials.

“Texans are tired of making decisions here at home and having them overwritten at the stroke of a pen by an executive order or a ruling from an unelected, unaccountable federal judiciary,” Miller said. “Texans want the ability to govern themselves, and they believe that the best people to govern Texas just happen to be Texans.”

Miller stated that Miller is not going to join any other countywide or state-wide movement in the nation, which has sought to seize or join another territory. “terminally broken” federal system.

“You could shift your counties over to a state that feels a little a little bit more representative of where you are ideologically,” Miller said. “But at the end of the day, it’s still the federal system that’s broken — and it’s still the federal system that drives so much of the dysfunction that we find in the United States right now.”

Texas history is littered with the push for independence.

Miller claims that Article 1 Section 2 is the state’s constitution Constitution — which states “all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit” — gives the movement the right to have a conversation about the referendum, many historians argue when the Confederacy surrendered in 1865, states could no longer legally secede from the Union.

“The legality of seceding is problematic,” Eric McDaniel was an assistant professor of government at University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Tribune 2016 “The Civil War played a very big role in establishing the power of the federal government and cementing that the federal government has the final say in these issues.”

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The United States would annexe Texas in nine years, after having broken away from Mexico and became a republic. After fighting within the United States to increase slavery in western areas, the Texans voted against the Union to seize power. After the Civil War, the Confederacy fell, Texas was defeated again and Texas joined the Reconstruction Era nine years later.

The U.S. Supreme Court stated in 1869 that the Union had readmitted the state to the nation just before it did. Texas v. White that efforts for individual states to unilaterally secede from the Union were ‘absolutely null.'”

Antonin Scalia, the former Supreme Court Justice, wrote in 2006. “the answer is clear” Referring to the legal basis for secession.

“If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede,” Scalia wrote. “(Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, ‘one Nation, indivisible.’).”

The following is an extract from the Texasview.orgSince the 1990s, several state secessionist movements have attempted to seize control of the state. The most recent attempt was made by The Republican Party of Texas in June 2022, and it seeks a referendum for 2023.

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