Wyatt earp
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Rural Oregon counties vote to discuss seceding from state to join ‘Greater Idaho’
A group called Move Oregon’s Border is leading an initiative to have Oregon’s rural counties secede from the rest of the state and join Idaho.video.foxnews.com
The problem with that idea....is that they lack the authority to do it.
You need the consent of other States to become a State. You don't just 'declare it' an start electing your Senators.
They want to become part of Idaho, not a new state
At the very least, they'd need the consent of both States. And most likely, the consent of the several states.
I don't see any of that happening.
Worked for the colonies.
Not so much for South Carolina though.
South Carolina is still under British rule?
Its still part of the US, despite writing its own articles of secession.
That dispute was settled already.
4 years later.
I doubt that the oregon counties would have much better luck without the consent of the States.
I don't think other states would matter, just oregon and Idaho plus congress
rticle IV, Section. 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitutions provides:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States 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.