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The Constitution does not say that regions must have 10 states. This was only included in an Amendment which DID NOT PASS. Instead, we passed an amendment under which regions did not have 10 states. It is done.
When was the amendment NOT passed? As far as I am aware...everyone voted FOR amendments 1 through 5.
We were asked which of four versions of Amendment IV we wanted, one of which was the version in your draft (The 10-states plan), another was the set of maps that won the vote that was taken among many possible maps (The "D&E plan"). The D&E plan was preferred by a clear majority of voters over your version of the amendment.
I was under the impression that just the STATES themselves were subject to change....not the whole amendment. I was fully aware (even when I was writting it) that those pretty little maps in the constitution were not going to last....(those were Supersoulty's maps of course.....not mine)......but I never knew the whole amendment went out the window. And for reasons no one has yet explained to me.
We can all admit this wasn't very clear. But people voted for a map that didn't have 10-state regions. I think we can infer that they we thus voting NOT to include the clause in the amendment that required 10-state regions. It just wouldn't make sense otherwise.
It didn't say in the final ratification vote II that the regions plan that was D&E wasn't a 10 state region, I was under the impression we had already said it had to be a 10 state region and that the different maps were just different ways of dividing up the regions, I only glanced at the maps in that thread before I voted, I did not know about this.
