admission of new state into Union

admission of new state into Union
The reception into the United States, under authority of an act of Congress for that purpose enacted, of a new state clothed with all the powers of sovereignty and jurisdiction which pertained to the original states and upon an equal footing with them. 49 Am J1st States § 9.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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