3801: No Precedence for State Republics— One Exception from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
The exception is Texas.
Texas has a unique history.
Texas
began as a regional province of Mexico — a very sparsely inhabited
domain. So the Mexican Government offered generous land grants to
encourage people to move to Texas,
640 acres per man, 320 each for his wife and every child, 80 acres per slave.
All
you had to do was behave yourself under Mexican Law and convert to
Roman Catholicism and you were given all this land. For people who were
already Roman Catholics it was a no-brainer, and no big obstacle for
those without strong religious conviction, either.
Soon
would-be colonists from the United States began petitioning the Mexican
Government to let them into Texas and the Mexicans agreed. 300
families affiliated with Mr. Austin, a lawyer and politician from
Missouri, crossed the border and settled in what is now Texas.
They
flourished. More colonists from the Caribbean and Louisiana and
foreign countries joined them. Soon, the Mexican Government started
treating Texas like a foreign country and imposing special tariffs and
taxes on Texans. Resentment festered.
Fights
broke out along the border and at seaports and soon, Texans were in
open rebellion against Mexico. The rest of the story? The Texans won
their independence from Mexico and formed their own independent country
which they operated under a separate government modeled after the Roman
Republic.
It
was several years later that Texas became one of the Several States of
the Union, so alone among the American States, Texas has a history of
being a separate country with its own form of government— a Republic of
Texas.
There
is no history of any other “State Republics” prior to Statehood, so all
these people chasing around and claiming that they are restoring “state
republics” are talking wind. There were never any such state republics
other than Texas. Hawaii was a separate Kingdom, but not a republic — a
monarchy.
So.
Once again, Americans are proving that they know nothing about their
own history and that they are prey to all sorts of incorrect assumptions
as a result.
Our
state governments in the rest of the country begin and end as states
having a “republican form of government” — which is to say, they were
never Roman-style Republics, but were instead community-based
governments operated by the common people themselves — not by a group of
elite Senators.
Texas
was the only state to ever adopt a Roman-style Republic and therefore
the only State that could, in theory, be “restored” to being a Republic,
and functioning as a completely separate country with its own language,
coinage, laws, etc.
There
are some Texans who cling to that idea and who aspire to rule over
Texas as oligarchs—- which is the end result of Roman Republics —-but
the fact is that they would lose the support of all the other States of
the Union and be viewed as foreign insurrectionists and traitors.
Most
Texans are not insurrectionists and are not traitors to this country as
a whole, nor do they cherish dreams of being “Senators” and lording it
over other Texans.
Most
Texans just want what we all desire— to have the Hired Help back in
order and leaving them, the Texans, alone to live their lives without
subjection to arbitrary foreign “laws” and coercion imposed by run amok
public employees.
Is that too much to ask?
Without being branded as an insurrectionist? Or a Tin Hat? Or a “Sovereign Citizen”?
We
believe that all the ignorant talk about “state republics” is being
promoted by enemies of this country and that they and their agenda
should be avoided — first, because the Roman Republic failed
disastrously and oligarchy is always despotic, and second, if these
yahoos don’t know enough history and law to decry the idea of
“restoring” state republics that never existed, they certainly aren’t
competent to restore the actual government we are owed.
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