How about it's strictly against the Constitution and it would be likely that none of the needed parties to consent to the formation of the state would agree to it?
Its illegal for a new state to be formed?
How about it's strictly against the Constitution and it would be likely that none of the needed parties to consent to the formation of the state would agree to it?
Its illegal for a new state to be formed?
Its illegal for a new state to be formed?
Article Four said: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.
However, if enough people in a state wanted to form a new state from within that state, and could get enough political support from the people of other states and from within their home state, then it is likely that the state they are trying to succeed from would allow them to leave the state to form their own state.
If this were to happen, then very soon afterwords the Federal government would allow the people in that state to form a new state on the basis of enough people not wanting to be part of the old state, and that they have therefore followed a natural, peaceable process to create a new state.
*Reads post*I wish to point out that outside potentially how you see West Virginia, this has never happened in American history.
It also happened with Maine. To this day, I still believe that either Plymouth gets statehood, or Maine returns to the Massachusetts fold.