Texas v. White

Texas v. White was a 1869 raised before the Supreme Court of the United States case.

In its decision, the court found that Texas since joining the Union always was part of the United States, although it had joined the Confederacy in the Civil War. Furthermore, the court stated that it is not possible under the Constitution a State, bring about a unilateral declaration cleavage. As justification, the court pulled up the Articles of Confederation, in which the United States is described as continuing community of states. The judgment states: "The Constitution is, in all its provisions from a continually resistant Union as ongoing individual states from. "

During the war, the secessionist Texas government of the United States government bonds sold after a law was passed, according to which the governor had to endorse a government loan prior to the sale first. Texas went to court to bonds that had been sold without such an endorsement to the defendants recover. Whether Texas was a member of the United States, this was crucial to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

The authored by Salmon P. Chase sentence was part of many Texans therefore questioned because Chase had held himself as Lincoln's cabinet member a leading role in the Union. They were of the opinion, Chase had the case may not decide for bias.

Even after the judgment becomes final, it remained controversial. Former supporters of the Confederacy, among them Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, as well as legal theorists Lysander Spooner spoke out against the decision and a right of secession of the states.