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Can the US federal government revoke statehood?

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No, it cannot. Merely asking such a question betrays a fundamental ignorance of the relationship between the states and the union. The states are not divisions or creations of the union, the union is a federation of the states. read more

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Which is basically a statement that the Constitution is an exclusive list of powers of the federal government, i.e. if it ain't listed, they can't do it. read more

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