FW: Texas legislature adds "under God" to Texas flag pledge

[Douglas Laycock]

  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" <Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu>:

> Forwarded to the list with Richard Winger's permission...
>
>
> Mark S. Scarberry
> Pepperdine University School of Law
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-election-law_gl at majordomo.lls.edu
> [mailto:owner-election-law_gl at majordomo.lls.edu] On Behalf Of
Richard
> Winger
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:39 AM
> To: election-law at majordomo.lls.edu
> 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."
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Douglas Laycock
Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
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