[DoodleDawg]

The people of the territory of Utah.

And where does the Constitution grant them the power to do so?

[WayneS]

What are you talking about? The Constitution does need to grant the people that power. In fact, the Constitution does not GRANT anything to the people. The Constitution is an agreement by which certain powers already held by individual states, and by the people therein, are relinquished to a federal government.

If the federal government has not been specifically granted a particular power, then the federal government does not have that power; it is retained by the states, or by the people.

The right of a people to choose their own form of government is argued quite effectively and eloquently in the Declaration of Independence.

Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution grants the federal government the power to ADMIT additional states to the Union, but nowhere in that document is the federal government empowered to create new states.

Exactly how much power do you want to give the federal government, anyway?