Richard
Richius
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« on: December 23, 2004, 11:24:05 PM » |
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How about you cut Texas up into 5 States? That will give the GOP an additional 8 Senators or so, and 8 EVs. Of course, such a motion would require consent by Congress. Luckily, Congress granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision 159 years ago. This made sense, as those had been the terms that Texas, a sovereign nation at the time, had negotiated for entering the Union. One provision of the 1845 Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas, passed by Congress and signed into law by President John Tyler, reads as follows:
"New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution."
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