Title: List of U.S. state partition proposals
Passage: New States may be admitted by the 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.
Question: can states be divided up to form other states or can two or more states join to make a larger state
Answer: yes