CSD.MCGRATH@SU-SCORE@sri-unix (08/21/82)
From: Jim McGrath <CSD.MCGRATH at SU-SCORE>
A bill to establish a national space and aeronautics policy, and for
other purposes.
Title IV - Government of Space Territories
Constitutional Protection
Section 4.01 All persons residing in any community in space organized
under the authority and flag of the United States shall be entitled to
the protection of the Constituion of the United States.
Self Government
Section 4.02 Whenever any such community shall have acquired twenty
thousand inhabitants, on giving due proof thereof to Congress, they
shall receive from Congress authority with appointment of time and
place to call a convention of representatives to establish a permanent
constitution and government for themselves.
Admission to Statehood
Section 4.03 Whenever any such community shall have as many
inhabitants as shall then be in any one of the least numerous of the
United States such community shall be admitted as a State into the
Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original
States.
Jim
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