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Wired reports that:
While ostensibly a plan to make the entire state of 38 million people more governable, the six-state initiative is being led and funded by a member of the Silicon Valley elite, many of whom would no doubt welcome the increased political clout that would likely come from carving out their own statehood. In the hands of most, the six-state initiative would look like a pure stunt. But with Silicon Valley behind it, this effort's chances at the ballot box can't be dismissed out of hand. Unlike most other would-be revolutionaries, Silicon Valley has a long record of taking ideas that sound outlandish at the time--affordable computers in every home, private rocket ships--and managing to make them real. It also has a seemingly endless stream of money that, combined with heavy doses of ingenuity and shamelessness, give its goofball ideas the fuel they need to take off.
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"Our gift to California is this--it's one of opportunity and choice," Draper said at a press conference yesterday where he announced the campaign had collected far more than 800,000 signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot. "We're saying, make one failing government into six great states."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 23 2014, @05:09PM
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State 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.
So they will have to make it so that California voluntarily says that each accompanying part is not a part of the state and then Congress has to approve. Then each of those parts need to go through the process to make a new state: have a Constitutional convention, have popular vote on said constitution, and then have Congress admit them to the union.
Good luck with that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @01:24AM
You forgot one detail. State boundaries are set by their constitutions, so it would actually require amending the California State Constitution.
(Score: 1) by VAXcat on Thursday July 24 2014, @03:11PM
You forgot about Texas - as part of the condition of its annexation to the Union, Texas can divide itself into five states if it wants to.
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