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Texas Deannexation Movement

The Texas Deannexation Movement is a seminal political process being developed to discuss and rationalize the idea of Texas' separation from the United States through a formal treaty of deannexation which would rescind all previous legal frameworks defining the relationship between the people of the State of Texas (previously Republic of Texas) and the United States of America.

Concepts

To be successful, this political process would entail defining a pragmatic set of conditions precedent under which such a dissolution could occur. There are numerous legal, political, socio-economic, and practical issues involved in bifurcating Texas from the other states. Some practical considerations are:


 * quantifying and financially guaranteeing existing USG obligations to Texas citizens
 * identifying and financially guaranteeing Texas' share of total USG obligations (public debt)
 * identifying and re-selling USG assets (buildings, lands, etc.) to Texas
 * handling organizational status of private commercial companies operating but not registered in Texas
 * defining other framework issues to be resolved (such as immigration, commercial exchange, etc.)

Assuming the myriad of dissolution issues have practical economic and legal solutions, the political question of "Should Texas be De-annexed?" must be resolved. The question exists on both sides of an argument. It is most probably framed as a zero-sum argument being: "Is the US better off without Texas?" or "Is Texas better off without the US?". In actuality, it is better framed as "How do both Parties Maximize Benefits Available as separate sovereignties?". If a substantial valence of win/win factors can be rationalized, then it is in the best interest of both populations to enact the dissolution.