[h=3]Article 4 - The States
Section 3 - New States[/h]
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1. 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.
2. The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
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The Congress shall have Power......not the BLM or any other entity...
there is no 'new land'....there is only existing land within a sovereign state.
and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
the claims of the US.....or
OF ANY PARTICULAR STATE.
Territories of the United States
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
United States Virgin Islands
Baker Island
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Atoll
Navassa Island
Wake Island
as was Alaska and the Hawaiian islands before they were granted statehood.
So explain it to us Jarod.....