a clause in the enabling act document established the guidelines by which new states would be added to the united states.
a clause in the enabling act document established the guidelines by which new states would be added to the united states.
a clause in which document established the guidelines by which new states would be added to the united states?
enabling act
in 1864, during the civil war, an effort to repeal this clause of the constitution failed. this clause was rendered mostly moot when the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery.









































section::::section 3: new states and federal property.









































section::::section 3: new states and federal property.:clause 1: new states.
article four of the united states constitution
section::::background.:1787 constitutional convention.









































at the 1787 constitutional convention, a proposal to include the phrase, "new states shall be admitted on the same terms with the original states", in the "new states" clause was defeated. that proposal would have taken the policy articulated in the ordinance of 1784 and made it a constitutional imperative. many delegates objected to including the phrase however, fearing that the political power of future new western states would ultimately overwhelm that of the established eastern states.
admission to the union