Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution authorizes Congress to admit new states into the United States … See more

District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is often mentioned as a candidate for statehood. In Federalist No. 43 of The Federalist Papers, See more

There are several proposals to divide states having regions that are politically or culturally divergent into smaller, more homogeneous, … See more

• Associated state
• Hawaii Admission Act, the last law to admit a new US state (1959)
• List of U.S. state partition proposals
• List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union See more

Should a 51st state be admitted, it would receive U.S. senators in classes 1 and 2, at which point all three classes would have 34 senators. See more

Philippines
The United States annexed the Philippines as its territory from the Spanish Empire in 1898 and established the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands in 1901. Since then, the Philippines has had small grassroots … See more

Some countries, because of their cultural similarities and close alliances with the United States, are sometimes described as a 51st state. In other countries around the world, movements with various degrees of support and seriousness have proposed U.S. … See more