Of course not. I constitution speaks to that. It says no state may be form from a part of a state without the permission of the larger entity. Try explaining that to Virginia when it comes to West Virginia.
“Of course not. I constitution speaks to that. It says no state may be form from a part of a state without the permission of the larger entity.”
I didn’t write about forming a new state, but what the US Constitution says is: “…no new State 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.”
If, claiming the power to do so as reserved to the people, a municipality, county, whatever, secedes from a state they are no longer part of the larger entity.so why would such permission be needed?
“Try explaining that to Virginia when it comes to West Virginia.”
West Virginia was admitted to the Union in 1863, well after Virginia claimed to have seceded. The need for Virginia’s permission for West Virginia to become a state is questionable since Virginia claimed it wasn’t one of the United States at the time. Seems like by your tenth amendment argument, the power to secede from Virginia and remain in the Union as a new state would be reserved to the people of what became West Virginia.