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Re:SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states by vladd on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:52PM (#7006822)
In Switzerland, some cantons (their equivalent of a state) decided to split. Before they had 2 votes each in the Council of States; after the split, each half-canton got 1 vote each - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland#Half-can... .

It would be fair to split California into 2 and then each half would get 1 senator. Otherwise you might try to play the population card, but other states would need to approve (or could veto) the process.

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Re:SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states by dragonwriter on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:52PM (#7007248)
> It would be fair to split California into 2 and then each half would get 1 senator.

Er, even split into 6 states with two senators, California would be underrepresented compared to many other states.

Plus, the one thing that the Constitution expressly prohibits doing even by Constitutional amendment is changing the distribution of Senators to something where states would not have equal representation. (You can take away all the power of the Senate by Constitutional amendment, but you can't stop it from representing the states equally.)

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