Texas Gets Required Signatures To Pull Out Of US Following Obama’s Victory

An online petition that calls for the State of Texas to withdraw from the U.S. and create its own government has reached the required signature threshold to receive an official response from The White House. The implication of this development is that the state has got the required signatures to be able to force the White House to rule that it is allowed to quit the union of the United States and form its own government.
The petition asks the Obama administration to “peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own new government.”

The petition which was created by a person self-identified only as “Micah H.” from Arlington, Texas, has surpassed 34,000 signatures.

The petition cites the nation’s economic woes as an issue and says that the condition of Texas’ budget and economy make it “practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union.”

Online petitions on the White House website that get sufficient support are reviewed by White House members of staff and “sent to the appropriate policy experts.” To be searchable on WhiteHouse.gov in the first place, petitions currently need to get 150 signatures within 30 days. To get an official response, petitions need 25,000 signatures within 30 days.

Similar petitions from other states have also been filed including: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee. However, unlike the petition from Texas, none of these states had reached the 25,000-signature threshold to get an official White House response as at the time of filing this report.

According to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, a 1866 proclamation signed by then President Andrew Johnson clearly spelled out that no state had the right to leave the union: “It is the manifest determination of the American people that no State, of its own will, has a right or power to go out of or separate itself from, or be separated from the American Union; and that, therefore, each State ought to remain and constitute an integral part of the United States”