alternatively, Texas admission can be seen as allowing for future slave states (up to 4 more states of Texas) to match future free states. At the time of Texas annexation, there were only two more territories open to slavery: Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) and Florida. But, the rest of the Louisiana Territory would eventually yield Iowa, Minn. S. Dakota, N. Dakota, Montana, Kansas, and Nebraksa. In addition Wisconsin, from the Old Northwest Territory, was still not yet a state. Thus, rather than being against the spirit of the Missouri Compromise, allowing 5 states to come out of Texas would have allowed for orderly admission of slave and free states.
Be interesting imagine what the 5 states right now would look like? At least one or two would have hispanic majorities. And a third might have a black/hispanic majority. Paul Finkelman President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue Albany, New York 12208-3494 518-445-3386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/07 4:15 PM >>> Off topic but short: The Texas Pledge may say "one and indivisible," but the Texas admission act says Texas can be divided into five states. At times, Texas politicians have claimed that is a unilateral right -- that Texas can divide itself and order up 8 more desks in the Senate. That doesn't make much sense, and would have wildly undermined the Missouri compromise practice of matching new slave states with new free states. But if it means only that Congress and Texas jointly could divide the state, it adds nothing to what's already in the Constitution. Maybe it just signaled that division was in contemplation. Quoting "Scarberry, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Forwarded to the list with Richard Winger's permission... > > > Mark S. Scarberry > Pepperdine University School of Law > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard > Winger > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Texas legislature adds "under God" to Texas flag pledge > > While looking for news about the Texas legislature's pending bill on > voter I.D., I ran across a news item that both houses of the Texas > legislature passed a bill adding "under God" to the Texas pledge of > allegiance. I hadn't realized that Texas schoolchildren take 2 pledges > each morning. The Texas pledge will probably say, "Honor the Texas > flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and > indivisible." > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw[1] > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can > (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. > > > Douglas Laycock Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School 625 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215 734-647-9713 Links: ------ [1] /horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.ucla.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Freligionlaw _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.