With a majority vote of 60% in both Houses of Congress and with a positive vote of 55% of the Citizens of the prospective State New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union.
No new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State without the consent of the Citizens of that State.
Every State is mandated to establish a process to allow portions of a State to request entry into the United States as a new State.
Without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress and of the Citizens of those States, no State shall be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States.
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 State.
The government is prohibited from owning more than 1% of the land in the various States or territories. Immediately on ratification of this Constitution, all land belonging to the federal government in excess of the 1% per State, shall be ceded to the various States. The States or Territories are banned from owning greater than 5% of the land in their state or territories. State or Territory land that must be sold by the various States or Territories to meet these provisions must be sold within twenty years after ratification of this Constitution.
Overseas possessions must be converted to Statehood or cast off within twenty years of the ratification of this Constitution. If the Congress shall move to accept an application of the possessions for Statehood, it shall be on an all or nothing basis. All the possessions that apply for Statehood shall be consolidated into one State. Those possessions refusing to apply shall be cast off.