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  • Five Lone Stars. Mess with Texas? Sure. Divide it into five states.

    08/22/2004 9:19:07 PM PDT · by John Jorsett · 81 replies · 2,757+ views
    OpinionJournal.com ^ | August 22, 2004 | Austin Powers
    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. Article IV, Section 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." These days, a partisan Congress would never agree to a Texas carve-up, since any resulting new states...