Mideast Region Senator's Thread

[Colin]

I will not support any reshuffling of the Regions that has Pennsylvania outside of the Northeast. PA belongs in the Northeastern region and I will vehemently oppose this if PA is not in the region it belongs in, the Northeast.

[Colin]

I will not support any reshuffling of the Regions that has Pennsylvania outside of the Northeast. PA belongs in the Northeastern region and I will vehemently oppose this if PA is not in the region it belongs in, the Northeast.

you are aware of this provision, aren't you?

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Yeah of course I'm aware of it. The problem is why the hell would the governor of the Mid-Atlantic region want to give up the most populous state in his small region? The Mid-Atlantic would never accept it and I am sure that it would be held up by bereaucratic and governmental tangles for ever. Look how long it has taken for New Mexico to go into the Pacific, albeit this wasn't helped by the old constitution.

[Colin]

a question to anyone who is in the position to answer:

is there any constitutional provision requiring that we have five regions?  because if not, we could have Pennsylvania and New Jersey join the Northeast, with West Virginia, Maryland,Delaware, and the District of Columbia joining the Southeast,with the boundary between the two regions set roughly at the Mason-Dixon Line dividing North from South. 

While the Constitution does not explicitly state that their must be 5 regions the wording is set up so that 5 regions is the normal and should be continued. Otherwise the number of Senators would change, the number of governors, who draw up the districts, would have to be changed, and certain provisions in the exchanging of states would have to be reworded.

[Colin]

I can always count on Peter to give a good argument, especially when its an argument I agree with.