Didn't work the last time

Texas Governor Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax 'tea party' on Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights, as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted Secede!

Rico says that's the start of a FoxNews.com article (click the post title for the whole thing) revealing Perry's 'plan' for secession: "Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that. "There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."

Rico says, for those with short memories, that Texas tried this before, in February of 1861. Click here for the full text of the Declaration of Secession, or accept this excerpt:

A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union
The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A. D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then a free, sovereign and independent nation, the annexation of the latter to the former, as one of the co-equal States thereof,..
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquillity and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people...
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity...
That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator...
For these and other reasons... We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America and the people thereof and confidently appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of the freeman of Texas to ratify the same...

Rico says they can try it, but there are a few things in the Constitution to prevent them, and there's always the Army...