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- From: amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.232118.21436@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Keywords: Constitution states
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- References: <92Sep1.205802edt.637@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> <1992Sep2.170531.11675@ms.uky.edu> <92Sep2.183019edt.207@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:21:18 GMT
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- In article <92Sep2.183019edt.207@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal) writes:
- >
- >Ahhh! But in Godel's time, there were also _territories_. Surely Alaska
- >was plenty big enough for hundreds of states?
- >
- >For that matter, do states have to occupy any land?
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- I seem to remember something about a territory needing 50,000 inhabitants
- (or was that 50,000 adults, or adult males, I can't recall) to even apply
- for statehood.
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