why are there no federations where creating new polities is relatively easy? like imagine if you could create a new state by simply purchasing a tract of land exceeding some minimum size, securing a (super)majority vote of residents in the land, and paying a fee. if a region of an existing state felt unhappy with the rest of the state, it could simply vote to secede and become a new state. if two states wanted to merge, they could do that too.
this obviously wouldn’t work in the current US—you’d have to change a bunch of things that are impossible to change at this point, like either abolishing the senate or changing its apportionment. i’m not sure if it would be better to have a unicameral system with apportionment based on population, or a bicameral system with apportionment based on population and tax revenue.
why are there no federations where creating new polities is relatively easy? like imagine if you could create a new state by simply purchasing a tract of land exceeding some minimum size, securing a (super)majority vote of residents in the land, and paying a fee. if a region of an existing state felt unhappy with the rest of the state, it could simply vote to secede and become a new state. if two states wanted to merge, they could do that too.
this obviously wouldn’t work in the current US—you’d have to change a bunch of things that are impossible to change at this point, like either abolishing the senate or changing its apportionment. i’m not sure if it would be better to have a unicameral system with apportionment based on population, or a bicameral system with apportionment based on population and tax revenue.