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I mean, it's fun to think about at a purely theoretical/academic level. But practically speaking, none of this could ever happen.

[dragonwriter]

I wouldn’t be so sure; it would require getting states to vote against their narrow parochial interests, but it's not inconceivable that it could happen. It would probably take a crisis of legitimacy in which the disaffection of the underrepresented states was sufficient to threaten the viability of the union, though.