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In article <60372@mimsy.umd.edu> jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) writes:
>In article <1992Sep16.135452.22200@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>>1. Since the constitution prohibits the formation of a new state from
>>other states, and DC was made up from Maryland refuse, can DC be made
>>a state without constitutional correction?
>
>Huh?  How did West Virginia come into being?
>

They cheated! :-)   (After all it was a Civil War.)

As I remember it, there was a rump Virginia government that sat in fedearlly
occupied Alexandria for much of the war. Much of it was made up of Western
Virginians. They saw a chance and took it.

On Maryland having a potential veto: They already gave up the land and the 
Federal government can do what it wants (see precedent of former state
territories transferred to Federal control in the 18/19 centuries).

Personally I think it'd be a blast for DC to rejoin MD. Baltimore County
(and almost every other suburban/rural county) would freak!

---dave

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"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
                                          --Harry S Truman

dave murphy djmurphy@wam.umd.edu uunet!haven!wam.umd.edu!djmurphy