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U.S. state was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (April 13, 2006). There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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While the Constitution does not explicitly discuss the issue of whether states have the power to secede from the Union, shortly after the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. White, held that a state cannot unilaterally do so.

This doesn't, as it happens, read, to me, very smoothly. I'm not, however, sure, at this point, how to improve it. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply