Texas secession movements

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Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas independence movement or Texit, refers to both the secession of the U.S. state of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address the secession of states, and the issue was a topic of debate after the American Revolutionary War until the American Civil War, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that states strictly cannot unilaterally secede except through revolution or the expressed consent of the other states. Texas was formerly called the Republic of Texas, a sovereign state for nine years prior to the Texas annexation by the United States. Accordingly, its sovereignty was not recognized by Mexico although Texas defeated the Mexican forces in the Texas Revolution. Modern secession efforts have existed in the state at least since the 1990s...

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