http://www.heritage.org/constitution#!/articles/4/essays/125/new-states-clause
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1
If I read this correctly it was an effort in name only? How do you read it?
Agreed, however, West Virginia violated that article.