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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 524535, member: 66&quot;]I have an argument that could possibly make WV legal.&nbsp; Virginia had left the union and so when the people of the area that became WV applied for admission it could be considered as coming from foreign territory and not being formed from another state.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some will say that the Civil War demonstrated that a state could not leave the Union which woul make the above argument void, but I wold say that the outcome of the war proves that leaving the Union WAS possible and that the southern states were successful in doing so since after the war ended the southern states were not treated as if they were still a part of the Union and they had to meet certain guidelines, pass various laws etc before they would be RE-ADMITTED to the Union.&nbsp; Now if they had to be RE-ADMITTED then they must have left the Union.&nbsp; And it took a few years before all of the states rejoined the union.&nbsp; (During the meantime even though some of the states sent representatives to Congress, they were refused being seated until thier state was re-admitted.&nbsp; So VA was no longer a State and the petition of the people of WV to be admitted as a state was legal.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But did they change the statute or just ignore the violation of the statute?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I didn&#039;t notice a kind of addition to this &quot;error&quot; in the thread</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the commemoration on the Booker T Washington half was for his birthplace, listed <u>on the coin</u> as Franklin County VA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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