[heleny]

Article IV, Section 3: "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state ..."

So this idea is unconstitutional.

Thanks for bringing up this most important aspect, which I completely forgot, and which the author completely failed to mention.

If it wasn't, than the party that controls Congress could divide a state packed with its members into 51 small states and get 100 new Senators.

Good point.

[paleocon patriarch]

Didn't the Texas Republic join the Union with a condition that they could later subdivide into, if memory serves, five smaller states, if they so voted?