The population of the State of California is greater
than the combined population of the following states.
| Iowa | 3,156,145 | |
| Nevada | 3,034,392 | |
| Arkansas | 3,013,825 | |
| Mississippi | 2,986,530 | |
| Kansas | 2,911,505 | |
| New Mexico | 2,095,428 | |
| Nebraska | 1,929,268 | |
| West Virginia | 1,805,832 | |
| Idaho | 1,754,208 | |
| Hawaii | 1,420,491 | |
| New Hampshire | 1,356,458 | |
| Maine | 1,338,404 | |
| Montana | 1,062,305 | |
| Rhode Island | 1,057,315 | |
| Delaware | 967,171 | |
| South Dakota | 882,235 | |
| North Dakota | 760,077 | |
| Alaska | 737,438 | |
| Vermont | 626,299 | |
| Wyoming | 577,737 |
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If California the 8.753,788 votes for Clinton and the 4,383,810 were not counted Clinton would have received would have received 54,231,840 popular votes and Trump would have received 58,501,018. President Donald Trump (R) won the popular vote in 29 states and Hillary Clinton won in 21 states, Trump won in 2,626 counties nationwide, while Hillary Clinton (D) won 487 counties. The City of Los Angeles has 3 times as more electoral votes than the total in the twenty states listed above. California should be divided into five or six new states. Texas, Florida and New York should also be subdivided into multiple states. |
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Seems to me a State is a State, is a State. Each State has its history, boundary, Capital city, government, University etc. so there is no need to split states. We just need to follow the Constitution.
Really. split states. Who has that right but the state itself. If following the Constitution The federal government has no power over any of the states. The Louisiana purchase was illegal according the Constitution. The purchase was alleged to be okay because it was Federal government interaction with foreign power. this is the only true legitimate power the federal government has. The Constitution created the federal government to act as intermediary between the alliance and the foreign powers .Each sovereign nation was to be its own independent nation within the alliance. the federal government did have the power to regulate trade between the states to ensure that the states stayed friendly within the alliance and continued to work as one in dealing with foreign powers. Instead of worrying about discussing this garbage we should focus on renewing states sovereign power. You can start as I have by writing your state government to insist.
AN ACT concerning Public Safety – National Guard Deployment – Governor’s Powers
SUMMARY
FOR the purpose of requiring the Governor to withhold or withdraw approval of the transfer of this State’s National Guard to federal control in the absence of an explicit authorization adopted by the Federal Government in pursuance of the powers delegated to the Federal Government in Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the U.S. Constitution.
A BILL ENTITLED __________
WHEREAS, Under the Constitution of the United States, each State’s National Guard is a defensive force controlled by the governor, but can be called up for federal duty by the federal government, provided that said duty is pursuant to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the Constitution of the United States delegates to the Congress the power to provide for “calling forth the militia” in three situations only: 1) to execute the laws of the union, 2) to suppress insurrections, and 3) to repel invasions; and
WHEREAS, James Monroe, member of the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 7th U.S. Secretary of State, and 5th President of the United States, wrote in 1815, “Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union; what laws? All laws which may be constitutionally made”; and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, Daniel Webster, in his 1814 speech on the floor of Congress, said, “The operation of measures thus unconstitutional and illegal ought to be prevented by a resort to other measures which are both constitutional and legal. It will be the solemn duty of the State governments to protect their own authority over their own militia, and to interpose between their citizens and arbitrary power. These are among the objects for which the State governments exist”; now, therefore,
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE (GENERAL ASSEMBLY/HOUSE/SENATE) OF THE STATE OF (enter state), That the Laws of (enter state) read as follows:
(enter section of state code here)
THE GOVERNOR SHALL WITHHOLD OR WITHDRAW APPROVAL OF THE TRANSFER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD TO FEDERAL CONTROL IN THE ABSENCE OF:
a) A military invasion of the United States, or
b) An insurrection, or
c) A calling forth of the Guard by the federal government in a manner provided for by Congress to execute the Laws of the Union, provided that said Laws were made in pursuance of the delegated powers in the Constitution of the United States.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the governor shall examine every federal order, present and future, that places the national guard on federal active duty to determine whether the order is Constitutional according to Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the Constitution of the United States. If the governor determines that the order is not Constitutional, he or she shall take all appropriate action to prevent the National Guard from being placed or kept on federal active duty.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the governor shall submit a report to the standing committees of the legislature with specified subject matter jurisdiction over military affairs, as provided under (ENTER SECTION FROM STATE CODE), that summarizes his or her review of every order that placed or places the national guard on federal active duty and any action he or she takes in response to that review, within 30 days after his or her review is complete.
SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect (enter date).
This comes from the Tenth Amendment Center.