If it's voted in by the absent New Jersey legislator showing up and supporting it, which states with western claims yield those claims to the federal government and why?
Is it it possible that southern states would retain all their land claims west to the Mississippi and never yield any territory to federal jurisdiction?
Might some southern states try to secede on the spot?
If not that, might the southern states make revision of that statute a condition of their accepting the new constitution a few years later?
Is it it possible that southern states would retain all their land claims west to the Mississippi and never yield any territory to federal jurisdiction?
Might some southern states try to secede on the spot?
If not that, might the southern states make revision of that statute a condition of their accepting the new constitution a few years later?