Just got done reading How the States got their Shapes, a book that, even though I have my qualms with it, I highly recommend to all those interested in alternate shapes of states. Anyway, one of the major themes brought up throughout the book was that the government tried to make all states as equal as possible (seven degrees of width for several states, three for height.)
As I was thinking about this, I thought of Jefferson's proposal for states, that they should follow around two degrees of width. What if he got his way with the Commission for these states? Or more specifically, how would this effect state creation in the West? Could we see stricter, similar ideas, such as states kept to two or three degrees of height? How would this effect the government?