Texas divisionism - wikipedia Texas divisionism Texas divisionism is a mainly historical movement that advocates the division of the U.S. state of Texas into as many as five states, as statutorily permitted by a provision included in the resolution admitting the former Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845. Texas divisionists argue that the division of their state could be desirable because, as the second - largest and second most - populous state in the U.S., Texas is too large to be governed efficiently as one political unit, or that in several states Texans would gain more power at the federal level, particularly in the U.S. Senate to which each state elects two Senators and by extension in the Electoral College in which each state gets two electoral votes for their Senators in addition to an electoral vote for each Representative. However, division may be wastefully duplicative, requiring a new state government. Texas ' division was frequently proposed in the early decades of Texan statehood, particularly in the decades immediately prior to and following the American Civil War in which Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy. Contents 1 Federal constitutional provision 2 State of Jefferson 3 State of Lincoln 4 Texlahoma 5 References 6 External links Federal constitutional provision The resolution of 1845, states that division is `` under the provisions of the Federal Constitution ''. Article IV Section 3 of The United States Constitution expressly prohibits Texas, or any other state, from dividing up and forming smaller states without Congressional approval. The relevant clause says `` New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union ; but no new states 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 ''. While opponents argue that the Constitutional provision would require Congressional approval of any new states formed from Texas ' territory, proponents argue that the resolution of 1845, as it was a bill which passed both houses of Congress, stands as Congressional `` pre-approval '' under the terms of the Constitution for formation of such states. Some constitutional scholars argue that any `` right '' of Texas to divide and reform itself into multiple states was ended by the secession of Texas in 1861 to join the Confederacy and its subsequent, formal, readmission to the United States of America in 1865 ; however, complicating this argument is the United States Supreme Court ruling holding that Texas remained part of the United States even during the Civil War. While Texas first joined the United States of America as a separate and sovereign nation, not a U.S. territory, secession and subsequent readmission to the Union as one of the united states changed the special circumstances under which Texas first joined the United States. State of Jefferson A bill was introduced to the Texas legislature in 1915 in order to create a State of Jefferson, made up of the Texas Panhandle. State of Lincoln State of Lincoln proposed in 1869 in Texas, south and west of the Colorado River. Another state that was to be named `` State of Lincoln '' was in Texas after the U.S. Civil War. It was proposed in 1869 to be carved out of the territory of Texas from the area south and west of the state 's Colorado River. Unlike many other Texas division proposals of the Reconstruction period, this one was presented to Congress, but like the others it too failed. Texlahoma In response to what proponents felt was lack of state attention to road infrastructure in the early 1900s, A.P. Sights proposed that 46 northern Texas counties and 23 western Oklahoma counties secede to form a new, roughly rectangular state called Texlahoma. References ^ Jump up to : `` Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States Approved March 1, 1845 ''. Texas State Libraries and Archive Commission. Jump up ^ https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiv Jump up ^ Division of Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Jump up ^ Mike Trinklein ( 5 May 2010 ). `` Lost States : Texlahoma ''. External links Snopes.com entry on the history of the proposal `` Messing with Texas, '' a post on the FiveThirtyEight blog on the political implications of a hypothetical modern - day division of Texas Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Texas_divisionism&oldid=842656555 '' Categories : History of Texas Politics of Texas Proposed states of the United States Republic of Texas Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2016 Texas articles missing geocoordinate data All articles needing coordinates Talk Contents About Wikipedia Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 23 May 2018, at 20 : 26. About Wikipedia

Question: texas may divide into as many as five states under the terms of
Answer: the resolution admitting the former Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845