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Five Lone Stars. Mess with Texas? Sure. Divide it into five states.
OpinionJournal.com ^
| August 22, 2004
| Austin Powers
Posted on 08/22/2004 9:19:07 PM PDT by John Jorsett
What would you say if we told you we have a way to add as many as eight new Republican senators to Congress? We could also add eight right-leaning votes to the Electoral College. It's simple, it's fun, and it's perfectly constitutional: Texas should divide itself into five states.
Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution says that new states may be created out of existing ones, but only with the consent of "the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
These days, a partisan Congress would never agree to a Texas carve-up, since any resulting new states would surely be politically conservative. But Congress need not take any action at all today: It 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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TOPICS: Editorial; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: congress; constitution; largelandmass; moresenators; representation; republicoftexas; senate; texas
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To: John Jorsett
North Texax, South Texas, West Texas, East Texas, Central Texas. (I guess.)
Think about the screaming if one of the Texases wanted to retain the unadorned name Texas!
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:23:20 PM PDT
by
Restorer
To: 1riot1ranger; Action-America; Aggie Mama; Alkhin; Allegra; American72; antivenom; Antoninus II; ...
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:23:58 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: John Jorsett
Do we really want more of these Yahoos? :'(
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:24:13 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: Restorer
Well San Jacinto WAS where the final battle for independence was won.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:24:44 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: Restorer
Texas should divide itself into five states. No doubt, the capital of the largest one would be called Texico.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:25:34 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: Restorer
South Texas would go Democratic. We would need to be part of central or east.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:25:48 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: Restorer
West Texas would go Demorat
It would include El Paso county....
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:25:52 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
To: weegee
If we can have North and South Dakota and Carolina, why can't we have several Texases?
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:26:18 PM PDT
by
Restorer
To: John Jorsett
NO, I am Californian and even I say NO This is ass whopin' talk~~ it should be kept private, preferably at the bottom of an out house.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:27:51 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(```I need representation against my union~~ They are extorting money~~~)
To: Restorer
Texmex, Texahoma, Texagulf, Texas and Texaco.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:28:02 PM PDT
by
ontos-on
To: John Jorsett
As an Arkansan, I can say that this would have both good and bad to it. For the bad, we would have five Texases. For the good, none of them would be big, big, big and proud of it.
I would recommend that we form them into Longhornia, Aggieland, BobKnightia, Highland Park, and Hell.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:28:28 PM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: Restorer
East TX belongs in Arkansas, West TX belongs in New Mexico, the Panhandle in OK, and the Valley can go to Mexico or become independent. :)
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:29:03 PM PDT
by
des
To: John Jorsett
I wish they would do the same with NY
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:30:04 PM PDT
by
qam1
(McGreevy likes his butts his way, I like mine my way - so NO SMOKING BANS in New Jersey)
To: ontos-on
North Texas could assume the proud name of Baja Oklahoma.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:30:20 PM PDT
by
Restorer
To: des
East TX belongs in Arkansas
Why you hate us so? Surely even Bill Clinton is not enough for you to wish this on us. (well maybe so)
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:30:20 PM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
To: Restorer
If there is ever statehood for Puerto Rico or some other regions, we will get over our "50 states/100 senators" fixation.
Washington, D.C. keeps seeking statehood (as asinine as "living" at City Hall).
I could see splitting California into 2 states as well.
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:30:29 PM PDT
by
weegee
(YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
To: John Jorsett
NO NO NO! Ain't never gonna happen!
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posted on
08/22/2004 9:30:35 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: des
and the Valley can go to Mexico I don't think so ! :')
To: John Jorsett
The Northern Republic of Texas
The Southern Republic of Texas
The Eastern Republic of Texas
The Western Republic of Texas
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