-=> On 01-17-98  08:17 Robert Craft said to Mike Angwin <=-
 MA> While it is indeed unclear, at times, exactly what rights
 MA> we reserve and what conditions apply relative to the Treaty
 MA> of Annexation and the Consitution of 1845, both still have
 MA> a strong impact both on state and federal affairs. To deny
 MA> this is to deny what actually is occuring.
 RC> You've yet to produce any argument substantiating that
 RC> claim.
That treaty was never in effect.  The U.S. Congress never
ratified the silly thing; therefore it is null and void.  Mike
can rant and rave all he wants about the "Imaginary" Repoublic of
Texas, it doesn't exist.
T.E. - San Diego Ilks (Sgt. at Arms)
tomenright@funtv.com
... Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden
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