SENATE RESOLUTION
Allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state boundaries
Be it resolved by two-thirds of each chamber that the Constitution be amended, as follows, upon ratification by the regions
SECTION 1.1. This Act may be cited as the "Screwing Around with Borders Amendment”.
SECTION 2.Article VII, Section 2, of the Fourth Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
1. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union, and apportioned among the several Regions as may be appropriate; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the Regions concerned as well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the Republic of Atlasia.
3. The Regional legislatures may alter the boundaries of states and counties located within their respective Region at will.
4. Congress may also alter the boundaries of states and counties, when the border in question is located between two or more regions.
This amendment allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state and county boundaries
People's Regional SenatePassed 4-2 in the Atlasian Senate AssembledAs amended:
Passed in the House of Representatives 6-2-1-0