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Six Californias was a proposed initiative to split the U.S. state of California into six states. It failed to qualify as a California ballot measure for the 2016 state elections due to receiving insufficient signatures. Venture capitalist Tim Draper launched the measure in December 2013. Had the measure passed, it would not have legally split California immediately; consent would eventually need to be given by both the California State Legislature and the U.S. Congress to admit the new states to the union per Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Rather, the measure would have established several procedures within the state government and its 58 counties to prepare California for the proposed split, and instructed the Governor of California to submit the state-splitting proposal to Congress.〔 The proposed states would have been named Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. Draper's stated reasoning for the proposal was that the state is too large and ungovernable, and he therefore wanted to split California to produce six smaller and more efficient state governments. Opponents argued that it would have been a waste of money and resources to split California and create these new governments. Critics also charged that this was a money and political power grab designed to separate California's wealthy areas from the poor, and to diminish the state's reliability as a predominantly Democratic Party-supporting "blue state". ==Background== (詳細はArticle IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution outlines the procedure for the admission of new U.S. states. It reads: There are several precedents: Vermont, admitted in 1791, was created from territory claimed by New York and New Hampshire; Kentucky split from Virginia in 1792; North Carolina ceded territory to the Federal government which became Tennessee in 1796; Georgia ceded land that later became part of Alabama and Georgia. Two instances were a result of slavery: as Missouri was being admitted to the Union, the 1820 Missouri Compromise balanced the number of free and slave states by splitting Massachusetts into Maine and Massachusetts; and West Virginia was admitted to the U.S. as a separate state in 1863 when the Union-loyal Restored Government of Virginia broke from Virginia after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in 1861. California has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states, including at least 27 serious proposals. Several of these attempts proposed the creation of a State of Jefferson that would span the contiguous, mostly rural area of southern Oregon and northern California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Six Californias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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