claim: says texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the united states.
author: chain email
evidence_1: mar 1, 2013 ... even after joining the united states, texas held on to the idea that it would take a  ... maintained the balance of power between free and slave states, it relinquished  ... “it must have been just a giant mob fight,” mccaslin said in ...
evidence_2: aug 24, 2011 ... joint resolution for annexing texas to the united states approved march 1, ...  fortifications, barracks, ports and harbors, navy and navy yards, docks, ...  belonging to the said republic of texas, shall retain funds, debts, taxes and ... of  said state, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to ...
evidence_3: the militia of the united states, as defined by the u.s. congress, has changed  over time. during colonial america, all able-bodied men of certain ages were  members of the militia. individual towns formed local independent militias for their  own defense. ..... the us congress is granted the power to use the militia of the  united states ...
evidence_4: to retain the loyalty of the remaining border states -- delaware, maryland,  kentucky, ... the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to  preserve the union. ... african americans had been working aboard naval  vessels for years, and ... still, many african americans wanted to join the fighting  and continued to put ...
evidence_5: the united states navy began the construction of battleships with uss texas in  1892, but the ... several other battleships have been sunk as targets, and uss  utah (bb-31), demilitarized and .... congressman hilary a. herbert, chairman of  the house naval affairs committee, said of the situation, "if all this old navy of  ours ...