of the Government on political questions". In a direct attack on Chase's position the bill stipulated that "it rests with Congress to decide what Government is the established one in a State, and that it is hereby, in accordance with former legislation, declared that no civil State Government exists in Virginia, Mississippi, or Texas." The legislation was defeated by the more conservative members of Congress. Aleksandar Pavković and Peter Radan in Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession state "'There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States' was not surprising. Given that the United States was born from revolution, Chase's words echo what had been stated by many legal scholars and politicians of the day, including Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster." See also Secession in the United States List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 74 Reference Re Secession of Quebec – a similar case in Canada regarding unilateral secession References Murray, Robert Bruce. Legal Cases of the Civil War. (2003) Nevin, John. Salmon P. Chase: A Biography. (1995) Ross, Michael A. Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. (2003) Further reading Hyman, Harold Melvin. The reconstruction justice of Salmon P. Chase: in re Turner and Texas v. White (University Press of Kansas, 1997) Radan, Peter. "Indestructible Union... of Indestructible States: The Supreme Court of the United States and Secession," Legal History. 10 (2006): 187. online Spaeth, Harold J. and Smith, Edward Conrad. (1991). HarperCollins college outline series: Constitution of the United States. (13th ed.). New York: HarperCollins. Pierson, William Whatley. "Texas versus White." Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1915) 18#4 pp. 341–67. in JSTOR, focus on the role of the bonds External links 1869 in United States case law United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court original jurisdiction cases v. White Aftermath of the American Civil War Separatism in the United States Legal history of Texas 1869 in Texas Government bonds United States Supreme Court cases of the Chase Court