![]() ![]() The Dakota territory, which was home to a large non-voting Native American population but only 20,000 potential citizens, became two states overnight. For example, in 1889 when the Republican Party was facing a probable loss in the 1890 election, Congress simply created six new states and they got 12 Republican senators out of it. It is, but as our guest Robinson Woodward-Burns noted, that has always been the case when adding states. Is adding these states a partisan political act? If Congress votes for them to become states, this would result in several new seats in the House and four in the Senate. ![]() Article IV of the Constitution says that adding a state requires the “consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.” There is also a movement for Washington, D.C., which does have three electoral votes, to become a state. But whether it becomes a state or not depends entirely on the U.S. This November, Puerto Ricans voted for a referendum to make it the 51st state. ![]()
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