Once in office, it may not suit President Trump’s objectives to bring as many new states into the American union as he can but that is nonetheless a powerful power that our Constitution puts in the back pocket of every president. Congress has the right given it in the Constitution to pass a bill at any time admitting a new state. President Trump must sign the bill to make it legal. He could easily make a deal with congressmen and senators to assure that he would have enough votes to admit a new state before negotiating some deal with a foreign state. He could begin by a press release making clear to every state in the world that he has such a power. Then he could go about the world making deals with the power to admit any state as a new American state as a trump card in his back pocket. Would President Trump pull out the card? Would he put it on the table? We have no evidence that any American president ever has. But Donald Trump says he will be a new kind of president. He will make America great again. America became as great as it is by admitting since 1791 over a period of 168 years 37 new sovereign states to its union. Is it conceivable that President Trump, who owns properties all over the world, will not see the possibility of continuing to do what made America great in the past? He may admit new states. Just because no President since Hawaii was admitted as a state in 1959 has played the powerful card in his back pocket, that is certainly no reason to believe President Trump will not pull it out and play it. We might as well vote for him if we want, like President Wilson, to save the world for democracy. If he could bring in,say, just ten new states it would be a mighty step towards worldwide democracy and worldwide freedom. It would be the best deal that he could make for America and the world.
Daniel McNeill
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