Does Texas have a legal right to leave the Union or secede?
<p>Many people, possibly even including recent Texas governors, think that Texas has a right to secede from the Union.</p>

<p>Does it, or does it not?</p>

<p>The U. S. Supreme Court ruled in 1869 that states may not unilaterally secede.  The state litigant in the case was Texas.  See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White</a></p>

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