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Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law
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Subject: Texas
Off topic but short: The Texas Pledge may say one and
indivisible, but the Texas admission act says Texas can be divided
into five states. At times, Texas politicians have claimed that is a
unilateral right -- that Texas can divide itself and order up 8 more
desks in the Senate. That
alternatively, Texas admission can be seen as allowing for future slave
states (up to 4 more states of Texas) to match future free states. At
the time of Texas annexation, there were only two more territories open
to slavery: Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) and Florida. But,
the rest of
Most historians I've talked to in the last couple of years about this clause
note that in any case, it was made invalid by Texas' leaving the Union in 1861;
readmission to the Union after 1865 did not include that divisibility clause.
Alaskans are pleased to tell Texans that if Texans
