Posted on 08/19/2004 2:37:00 AM PDT by The Raven
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.
Art. IV, Sec. 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."
...Congress need not take any action at all today: It granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision 159 years ago...signed into law by President John Tyler...:
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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..So all that remains is for Texas to say "Yes" and act to divide itself into five...
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The Constitution's requirement that each state have equal representation in the U.S. Senate means that huge Texas -- the nation's second largest state in both people and land -- has the same representation in the Senate as puny Vermont.
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So what are y'all waiting for? ... For the good of America, for the good of Austin, for the good of the GOP, now's the time for Texas to become five Texy-Tots. Yee-haw!
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and you'll divide this state up only after it becomes a country!
From my cold dead hands you, you... I'll think of something.... you... divider!!
TEXAS PING!
Anti Texite?
Thats only for subscribers darn it, those yankee's
One of the really bad things about that idea is..um..
What do we name the other 4 'states'??
Good idea. Properly divided, California could end up with 2 Democrat Senators from West California (a narrow strip of coastal land includling LA and SF) plus 4 Republican Senators from two new states of Northern California and Southern California.
What is with the fact that the federal government REFUSES to do anything when they KNOW that known terrorists are coming and going at will over the border?
As in Seinfeld - anti dentite.
Which means under the provisions of Article IV. Admission of new states requires the approval of both houses of Congress.
OK
...and right after THAT, California would do the same. Let's not go there.
How about we divide up Alaska?? Into 4 parts... so Texas can be the biggest state again?
Northern Alaska can be renamed Utopia. Central Alaska can be renamed Leninland, East Alaska can be renamed Liberalvia and Southern Alaska where most people are, can be Alaska.
Hmmmm... can we divide Massachusetts?
North and South Dakota. There could be a North and South Michigan.
If you do it'll solve that problem of what to do with all those Kennedy's wandering around without an office to run for.
Ted Kennedy is the Mass and Barney Frank is the achusetts
Well, maybe we can carve off a chunk and donate it to Russia or Cuba??
North and South Nebraska, North and South Kansas, East and West South Dakota, East and West North Dakota, East, Central and West Montana. Las Vegas becomes a City-State.
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