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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 93575, member: 4381&quot;]Actually, I&#039;m pretty certain that West Virginia is unique in being illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of Nevada, it was just statute that set the population goals for territories and they could change them at the will of Congress.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the State of Kentucky and every other western territory was CLAIMED by eastern states, as part of the adoption of the Constituiton states had to give up their western claims, and so Kentucky was never actually part of Virginia.</p><p><br /></p><p>But West Virginia was clearly cleaved, involuntarily I might add, as a direct result of the civil war.&nbsp; I believe that if Virginia sued West Virginia and the US goverernment (if that is possbile) that the Supreme Court would need to put WV back into Virginia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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