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re: Ramifications of California Splitting Into 3 States?
Posted on 6/13/18 at 12:28 pm to Buckeye Backer
Posted on 6/13/18 at 12:28 pm to Buckeye Backer
It won't happen. Even if 100% of the voting Californians approve the split, the feds have the final say. The last tine it happened was Virginia splitting, and that took a civil war.
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Posted on 6/13/18 at 12:50 pm to AUCE05
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It won't happen. Even if 100% of the voting Californians approve the split, the feds have the final say. The last tine it happened was Virginia splitting, and that took a civil war.
Pretty sure Malcolm Gladwell did a podcast on this recently that was focused around some internal Texas strife. I didn't listen too closely and tuned a bit of it out, but it somehow has to do with ambiguities in the constitution's grammar. Supposedly it could be interpreted that Federal consent is only required to add a new state, but that it's not required to split existing states. Supposedly that could be interpreted to be determinable at the state level.
Do I believe that would ever hold-up in court? God no, but it would be interesting to see how things would shake up if either Texas or California split (in some crazy hypothetical realty).
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