Wow really Texas became a state of the US after leaving mexico..... Where do I get a copy of your history book? I was taught that Texas for a few years was an independent nation " The Republic of Texas " I guess I need to find my US history teacher and set him straight.
So for you to say that the second quote is "correct" ( for a few years). Then the first quote can not be "correct" as well. Can't have your cake and eat it to. And to correct myself I meant Texas becoming a state immediately after freeing itself from Mexico.
If a territory can join the US by agreeing to the rules set fourth to be a state. Then say 100 years later decide things are getting a little bit out of hand and want out and don't like the rules governing states rights they can leave just the way they came in..... Of their own FREE will.
You know free will.
I guess you're also a believer in manifest destiny.....
I'm a believer in free will. I'm also a believer in keeping contractual agreements made of free will.
It would be like Cuba wanting to join the US....
But the good ol' boys down South didn't want to let people with brown skin to have voting rights.
Then explain Hawaii their a little on the brown side....
How many contracts do you see that don't have a clause allowing either party to void the contract if certain terms arnt fulfilled?
"Are you saying it's impossible for states to be territories before becoming states?" Texas was not a territory it was a sovereign nation " the republic of Texas" which from the info I have gathered from reading made some interesting negotiations between the republic of Texas and the US. With some loopholes and inconsistent things done when they joined the union...
It would be like Cuba wanting to join the US....
Ironic that the Golden Circle Southerners wanted Central America to join the US.
Just wait until BadWolf finds out what "filibustering" was originally.
I say, I say, I conquer these lands in the land of Southern Slavery:
It really WAS all about slavery.
Texas was only a nation for a few years until the attempted reconquista which prompted them to join the USA.
There are no "loopholes" or any of that yeehaw nonsense that you hear from Texans.
Wasn't Texas pretty much broke by the time they came begging to join? (Words chosen to inflame )