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To: Vigilanteman
Somewhere I read that they had the right to divide into up to five states as part of their agreement for admission into the union.

That may have been the case on their original admission in 1845, but on readmission after The Late Unpleasantness I'm pretty sure no such clause was extant.

21 posted on 03/16/2012 1:33:36 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
The whole "readmission" business was bizarre--Lincoln rejected the notion that states could secede and reconquered the South to make his point, but once the South was defeated the Radical Republicans said the Confederate States had seceded and had to be "readmitted." Congress could prevent Senators and Representatives from taking their seats until they approved, but when Southern states got their seats back in the Senate the clock had kept ticking as if nothing had happened as far as which Senate seats were up in each two-year election cycle.

I haven't looked at what was said when Texas was "readmitted," but I once saw a doctoral study of various proposals to divide Texas into five states, and they went on long after 1865.

33 posted on 03/16/2012 6:01:04 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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