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January 19, 2011

Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 13

Constitutional Maunderings
Hatched by Dafydd

When states were brand new, the Founders must have worried that they might play shenanigans with their borders...

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Section 3 - New States

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.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Section 4 - Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

A necessary safeguard against one big state simply splitting itself into two or three smaller states that vote as a bloc, thus effectively giving the combination state six senators instead of two.

All verses in the Lizardian Constitutional Collection:

  1. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 1 (Preamble)

  2. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 2 (Congress; House, part I)

  3. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 3 (House, part II)

  4. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 4 (Senate, part I)

  5. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 5 (Senate, part II)

  6. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 6 (General congressional admin stuff)

  7. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 7 (Legislative process and enumerated powers)

  8. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 8 (Limitations)

  9. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 9 (The prez -- who does he think he is?)

  10. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 10 (What would a president do?)

  11. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 11 (Judiciary)

  12. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 12 (States, part I)

  13. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 13 (States, part 2)

  14. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 14 (Amendment; supreme law of the land)

  15. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 15 (Ratification rules and signers)

  16. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 16 (Amendments: Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-4)

  17. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 17 (Bill of Rights -- Courtroom Amendments 5-8)

  18. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 18 (Bill of Last Rights 9 and 10)

  19. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 19 (Amendments: Suing other states, president vs. vice president)

  20. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 20 (Amendments: Abolition of slavery)

  21. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 21 (Amendments: States prohibited from infringing rights)

  22. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 22 (Amendments: Racial voting rights)

  23. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 23 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism I)

  24. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 24 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism II)

  25. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 25 (Amendments: Rooseveltian amendments)

  26. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 26 (Amendments: Camelot amendments)

  27. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 27 (Amendments: Panacea amendments)

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 19, 2011, at the time of 12:00 AM

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