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Comment by jnwatson

Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution:

“The legislature, in cooperation with the properly constituted authority of any adjoining state, is empowered to change, alter, and redefine the state boundaries, such change, alteration and redefinition to become effective only upon approval of the Congress of the United States.”

Essentially they’d need approval from WV, MD, and an act of Congress. Highly unlikely.

This issue is one of the many defects in democracies: your power sometimes rests in the way somebody drew a border a long time ago.

parent jnwatson 5 years ago

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