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Re: Texas Confederate opposed to slavery?

And they were correct.

The Declaration of Independence states;

"...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"

This is the right of secession.

Now people will argue that this right is NOT in the Constitution. But it is.

The 9th Amendment of the Bill of Rights reads:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

There was much debate during the Constitution Convention in 1789 about whether or not a Bill of Rights should even be included in the Constitution at all. The arguement against inclusion was that some may say that the only rights given to the people would be limited to only those in the Bill of Rights. The 9th Amendment was the compromise amendment to that argument.

This amendment stated that any right which was not specifically prohibited under the Constitution was permitted, including the right to dissolve their allegience with the former Union under the Declaration of Independence which outlined and established that right.

So was secession legal? According to this interpretation it was Constitutional the same as the colonies dissolving their ties to the King of England.

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