Vermont considered itself an independent republic after colonial US
independence, but it was also claimed by both New York and New Hampshire; NY
at one time asked President Washington to send federal troops into VT to
annex it to NY.
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> From: voit1[SMTP:voit1@...]
> Reply To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 3:57 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Texas panhandle - 3 miles into New
> Mexico(?)
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "kontikipaul"
> <contikipaul@h...> wrote:
> > Texas and Vermont, upon once both being independant countries and
> > joining the Union were both given the right to leave the Union. I'm
> > not a constitutional expert but its what I was taught in school and
> > what I read in the encyclopedia. I don't double check every single
> > fact or statement I hear and I doubt anyone does. My president
> sold
> > me on a war against a sovereign nation based on an imminent threat
> > and weapons of mass destruction that have turned out to be BS. But
> > that doesn't mean I disbelieve (or believe) everything I hear.
> Who's
> > to say your facts or interpretations are correct. Van Zandts
> > arguments may be 100 percent correct.
> >
> > By the way we sold about 15 islands/atolls/coral reefs that were
> > partially awash last year to Kiribati that nobody knew existed and
> > gave away another 5 or six to Russia to settle a border dispute.
> So
> > its happened before. A more realistic question is the Commonwealth
> > of the Northern Marianas Islands (ie Saipan) are they part of the
> > US? They have the right of abode here, they can join the FBI, I
> > can't move there legally and they don't have to abide by any US
> labor
> > laws. They were once a part of the US and now consider themselves
> > independant.
> >
> > I mean you're right that essentially they wouldn't leave, but
> > some politician looking for a vote with a 10 gallon hat would bring
> > it up. At the end of the day its something that people can point
> to
> > and use as a point/counterpoint in an argument. By the way if
> you
> > read past my point about Texas being able to suceed at anytime
> you'll
> > see I agreed with you about NM not being able to get 'three miles'
> > back.
>
> No allowance exists for Texas to return to independence.
>
> from: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/index.html
> "When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed,
> the United States Congress passed--after much debate and only a
> simple majority--a Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United
> States. Under these terms, Texas would keep both its public lands and
> its public debt, it would have the power to divide into four
> additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so
> desired, and it would deliver all military, postal, and customs
> facilities and authority to the United States government. (Neither
> this joint resolution or the ordinance passed by the Republic of
> Texas' Annexation Convention gave Texas the right to secede.)"
>
> Was Vermont REALLY an independent country? What about Hawaii?
>
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