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To: 1rudeboy

Study the context of that clause - it doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.


41 posted on 04/19/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: GilesB

Enlighten me.


42 posted on 04/19/2014 12:27:45 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: GilesB
Study the context of that clause - it doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means.

Appears as tho the context has to do with adding land (territories, states) to what agreeably exists...NOT that the gov. can determine what the land is used for...There may be more to this but I didn't search very far...

Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1

Document 7

James Madison, Federalist, no. 43, 290--91
23 Jan. 1788

In the articles of confederation no provision is found on this important subject. Canada was to be admitted of right on her joining in the measures of the United States; and the other colonies, by which were evidently meant, the other British colonies, at the discretion of nine States.

The eventual establishment of new States, seems to have been overlooked by the compilers of that instrument. We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety therefore has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution that no new States shall be formed without the concurrence of the federal authority and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions.

The particular precaution against the erection of new States, by the partition of a State without its consent, quiets the jealousy of the larger States; as that of the smaller is quieted by a like precaution against a junction of States without their consent.

164 posted on 04/19/2014 4:02:24 PM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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