[Magdalen] Split California?

[Christopher Hart]

Also, West Virginia was formed out of Virginia during the Civil War.
Several counties didn't want to be part of the confederacy and were
admitted to the union as a new state. I agree that the California split is
highly unlikely.

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> Some long years ago (~1820, I think), Massachusetts agreed to have Maine
> split off as a separate state - it had been part of Mass. previously. This
> was part of the Missouri Compromise. I believe both the state legislature
> and Congress needed to agree - nothing beyond that.
>
> I don't see that happening to California in the near future.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Stokes via Magdalen
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2018 5:47 PM
> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Cc: Roger Stokes
> Subject: [Magdalen] Split California?
>
>
> I haven't travelled the length of California as I started at LA before
> heading North but I know it's a Big State. I have also seen suggestions
> that it be split into a number of smaller states. There is a procedure
> for forming new states, as happened most recently with Hawaii and
> Alaska, but what would be the legal process of dividing an existing
> state into a number of smaller states? I would guess it would need an
> Act passed through Congress, where it might well stall as the effect
> would be four more Senators from that part of the world. It might also
> then need affirmation from a majority, possibly a super-majority, of the
> other 49 states to take effect.
>
> Roger
>



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