To: Paleo Conservative
The Article you quote says nothing about a part of a state leaving one state and becoming part of another.
It addresses states splitting to form NEW STATES.
BTW, does this Article makes West Virginia unconstitutional?
9 posted on
01/09/2004 9:06:29 PM PST by
George Smiley
(Is the RKBA still a right if you have to get the government's permission before you can exercise it?)
To: George Smiley
BTW, does this Article makes West Virginia unconstitutional? Interesting question. West Virginia was admitted when the 55 westtern counties of Virginia refused to seceed from the Union. If Virginia was no longer a state in the US, US Constitution would not apply; however, it was the assertion of the Lincoln administration that the Confederate states were still part of the Union but in rebellion.
11 posted on
01/09/2004 9:14:54 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
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To: George Smiley
Didn't the counties that comprise West Virginia get statehood after Virginia was no longer officially part of the Union?
Either way, I'd say it's up to interpretation as far as what is required for secession from one state to another. New Hampshire is already a state, and wouldn't necessarily be reformed. Some radical federal judge will probably end up determining the outcome.
I do like their thinking though. Vermont is the land of Nikita Dean and Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, not the people of Killington. If I were them I'd rather live in New Hampshire too.
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