Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 02, 2009

Things are bad enough with postage-stamp states like Rhode Island and Delaware getting their own Senators. Can you imagine the damage that could be done to this country with TEN Senators from Texas?

no no you misunderstand..the law allows Texas to become it’s own Republic with 5 states..seperate from the US completely..think Canada of the South.

Make sure they’re not oil men.

Stantis, you are one of the few people in the media to get this correct. No state has the right to secede, but yes, Texas’ constitution allows it to split into five states, which would remain in the United States. Good for you.

Every state has the right to split into two or more states, or create a new state by combining part of itself with part of another adjoining state, as long as the US Congress and the respective state Legislatures agree.

In theory, Rhode Island could split, then split again, and yet again, forming 8 states with 16 Senators and 16 Representatives (the individual states formed would not have enough people for more than one representative per state).

It’s right there in the Constitution.

Only Texas, and any states formed from Texas, was limited to forming only five states in total. The old East Coast states were worried about how politically powerful the enormous area of Texas might one day exercise.

Every state has the right to secede, as there is no Constitutional, Federal law, or Federal Regulation to prevent it. What the states lack is the power (military, political and/or economic)to do so without the agreement of the US Congress.