The First State Leaves

I made mention of the "Second Republic" in an earlier post. This refers to what you see as the current government of the United States. I feel that this point needs more clarification. The current Constitution was signed in 1787 effectively replacing the Articles of Confederation and ending the early confederacy that the US was organized as. This Constitution remained in effect through what in my time is referred to as the end of the First Republic, what is also known as the Civil War.


By 1865 the United States government had moved away from a more confederate style of relationship to a more federal style of relationship among the states. It was after this time both the Executive and Legislative branches began exercising powers not specified in the Constitution. This is the time when a new constitution should have been written, but wasn't in order to maintain the idea that the country was still the same one that had been created 80 years earlier. Therefore, history will show that the chronology is First Republic: 1787-1865 Second Republic: 1865 - 2036.

Several weeks ago the governor of Texas made a statement about the fact that Texas could leave the Union at any time. This is only true in so far as any state or region of any country can choose to become independent if they are willing to fight for it. This is what will happen in 2036 - the 200th anniversary of Texas' original recognition of independence. It is this time that future historians will mark the end of the Second Republic. The US government will respond as it did during the Civil War with a military reaction, but in the end it will not have enough military resources to fight those of Texas. Mexico becomes the first country to recognize its independence and it's status as a separate nation. It was this success that caused Texas to become only the first of many states to leave the union and the United States to enter its current (in my time) era of governance.