Try reading the Constitution some time. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
No, it isn't. Notice that the States participate fully in the approval process for "adjustments" and the creation (and admission) of new States. This is not a federal prerogative but a shared power.
What constitution are you thinking of? It sure isn't the U.S. Constitution.
N-S What constitution are you thinking of? It sure isn't the U.S. Constitution.
With this, ladies and gentlemen, L-S has clearly demonstrated his complete misunderstanding of our form of government. LG's position is the correct one.
Sez you, the great constitutional editor. I recognize the language of the Tenth Amendment as readily as you, and the only parties doing any "forbidding" are the States themselves -- and that language is not used in Articles I and IV; but rather, you had to go all the way back to Amendment X, which wasn't composed in the Philadelphia Convention, to get the word "prohibit". The original language of Articles I and IV is much more expressive of original intent, and it uses the phrase "no State shall...."
Maine ~ he’s talking about the state of Maine. It had been a Massachusetts county ~ not an independent territory. The clause was used in one of those Missouri Compromise moments to create a state out of another state.