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In article <1992Sep17.022418.26784@openage.openage.com> ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
}m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
}
}
}>Two items:
}>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?
}
}Sorry this in not true - see West Virginia.  In addition somehere
}in my memory was a clause that Texas or California had the right to
}split later if they choose.  In fact legislators in California have
}talked about just that as have the upstate New Yorkers for many years.

Out of curiosity, did you bother to check the constitution before you
said this?  (I doubt it, since I did before I wrote it)

}>2. Given that Barry was the recep of such a large vote from ward 8, and that
}>the demo will wind up (most likely) the position, what are the chances
}>of the rest of the US going along with statehood for a region that reelected
}>a druggie womanizer?
}
}You mean womanizer and CONVICTED druggie - there are plenty of druggie and/or
}womanizers in office; not as many convicted ones although there are quite
}a number conivted of Purgery, Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud, etc.

With international fame as such.