Subject: Re: whats wrong with this picture
Date: Jan 14, 2004 @ 22:01
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> Mike,only one! Perhaps you missed something during your peregrinations.
>
> I've explained this until I'm blue in the face, and I'm not the
>the "guarantees" given to Texas by the Congress on March 1, 1845, is
> The prevailing Texas view (to which I subscribe) of one of
>to subdivide. It would take congressional action to authorize any
> No other state has ever been given such congressional carte blanche
>advantage over other states by this proviso. The first time I read
> Van Zandt gives us a doubly-hedged denial that Texas acquired any
>since the discussion about the unilateral multiplication of texas
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Donner
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:37 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] whats wrong with this picture
>
>
> here complete at last & all in one message for the first time
> in case anybody has been wondering what it is really aboutfederal constitution
> is the actual text from bus&ss aka van zandt
> which has been alleged to be erroneous
>
>
> open quote
> in a joint resolution approved 1 march 1845
> congress gave its consent for the erection of texas into a state
> provided certain conditions & guarantees were accepted
> one of which was as follows
>
> open internal quote
> new states of convenient size
> not exceeding 4 in number
> in addition to said state of texas
> & having sufficient population
> may hereafter
> by the consent of said state
> be formed out of the territory thereof
> which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the
> close internal quoteany advantages over other states
>
> source 5 statutes at large 797
>
> resume primary quote
> texas does not appear however to have acquired by this proviso
> as it merely can give its consent to a division of its areaapparently resting with congress
> the right to make the recommendation or request for the division
> close quoteby bus&ss
>
>
> also
> within quotation marks are the words
> guarantees
> in the first sentence
> &
> consent
> in the last sentence
>
>
> now i expect some wag will answer
> whats wrong is that this just isnt spotless enough to go capless
>
>
> but i mean what is wrong with the picture actually presented here
> or by van zandt or whoever you think is telling us this----------
> & whoever you think we are
> & to which exception has been taken
>
>
> this question has until now apparently been completely overlooked
>
>
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