Lawmaker Wants Texas To Exit The Union

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Republican State Rep. Kyle Biedermann of Fredricksburg plans to file a bill that will allow Texans to vote in a referendum on whether Texas should leave the United States. He made his case in a Facebook post on Wednesday: 

"The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans. That is why I am committing to file legislation this session that will allow a referendum to give Texans a vote for the State of Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. This legislation perfectly aligns with Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution which reads: “All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient. #Texit"

Biedermann had yet to file the bill, which would join hundreds of others in the January session of the legislature.

Texas became an independent nation in 1836 after a war for independence with Mexico and remained a sovereign nation until it was admitted to the Union in 1845. Texas left the United States on Feb. 1, 1861, and joined the short-lived Confederate States of America. After the Civil War and Reconstruction of the 1860s, Texas rejoined the Union in 1870.

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