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Ben Franklin's world is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.

And you get people like John Adams, who will crow about what a superior society

Massachusetts is and he will tell anybody who's willing to stop and listen to

him about this that includes Thomas Jefferson who says Massachusetts really would be wonderful

if it didn't think itself better than everybody else. He'll tell King George the

third. Everybody. He is a real Massachusetts booster. There were no Red Sox back then, but he would have worn a Red Sox out if they had been around, right? Hello and welcome to episode 384 of Ben Franklin's world. The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people

and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

Article 4, Section 3 of the United States Constitution

establishes guidelines by which the United States Congress

can admit new states to the Union.

The Constitution states that, quote, new states to the Union. The Constitution states that quote,

new states may be admitted by Congress into this Union,

but no new state shall be formed or erected

within the jurisdiction of any other state. Nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more

states or parts of states without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well

as of the Congress." Five of the United States' 50 states were formed out of existing states.

Vermont was formed out of territory claimed by both New Hampshire and New York.

The boundaries of Tennessee were once the

boundaries of North Carolina. Kentucky and West Virginia once born parts of Virginia,

and Maine was once a part of Massachusetts.

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