Is secession illegal?
In order to silence secession questions, references are made to the Supreme Court case of Texas v. White (1869) which critics claim, made secession illegal. A close look at the ruling shows that it did not rule secession illegal, the Supreme Court justice Salmon Chase only put increased government regulations on it to make it more difficult. Since many people only read someones interpretation of the ruling rather than the rulings themselves, they often do not comprehend the full ruling in such a legal case. Although Justice Chase determined that Texas did not legally secede, he did not rule secession out as a viable political option. The case only reviewed how Texas seceded and refused consideration of the legality of its annexation. The two issues were intertwined in that the secession of Texas involved the nullification of the illegal actions involved in joining the Union of States. The opinion on the secession issue was not a unanimous one. Despite the cherry picking of issues to ex
