california western law

Some historians say that when the Mayflower landed on California coast instead of the east coast, the state would in several smaller states, like the New England region.

The view that it takes longer to drive from California to the north of the southern border to border, as it made the trip to the opposite coast from Maine to six New England states in Washington, DC

There were at least 26 different proposals for the allocation of California.

The question for California emerged as the first in the southern part of the state wanted the capital there, while in the northern part of the state, whether she wanted.

The location of the capital, it was of the opinion would be the area that would be the most political considerations.

Disvisionists wanted to California and find the capital, either in Monterey, Los Angeles, or San Diego. North felt they are not overtaxed to pay for Southern California's education, social programs and judicial system.

A further division between the north and the south was the question of the water. The South depended on for water to the north. North felt the dams and facilities necessary to transport water from the south have been caused by adverse geographical and climatic changes. Some saw the earthquake, like an in Oroville in 1975, were a consequence of the construction of water facilities.

The proponents of the division of the state expressed a common complaint: California was simply too large, and therefore ungovernable.

In 1864, a measure was splitting the vote by the electorate, by the Governor, and to Congress. Congress does not agree.

No state in the United States was divided into two or more regions since 1862, when the western part of the State of Virginia, Virginia against secession from the Union in 1861, and Congress is recognized as the State of West Virginia.

Most proposals to California, the state would split horizontally into two parts, either on the Tehachapi mountains or at a northern point just above or below Sacramento. It was at least a suggestion that the state is divided vertically into east and west of California.

Another suggestion proposed division into three states California, Northern, Southern and Central California.

Another proposal would divide California into a series of small states. This proposal is designed as a tongue-in-cheek suggestion would be that Balkanize California in small states do not have adequate resources and virtually no power at the national level.

Perhaps the most radical suggestion, and also made witty, California would be a separate nation. This proposal was the idea from San Jose Mercury newsman Ted Bredt, which pointed out that California's resources and financial opportunities were greater than those of many nations.

In 1849, Jose Antonio Carrillo, a southern delegate of the Constitutional Convention, a proposal for a division of California in San Luis Obispo. The southern part of the state to an area, while the northern part to a country.

Other participants at the Constitutional Convention proposed what is now California, but also Nevada, Utah and Arizona in the new state. This proposal was rejected out of hand, as if a state is too large.

In 1852, some near the Oregon border Californians expressed their dissatisfaction over high taxes, poor mail service, and lack of military protection against the California Indian tribes. They wanted the state Shasta.

There were attempts by a Northern California area to a total disconnect from California. This was in 1856, when Isaac Newton Roop, founder of Susanville, and Peter Lassen, the explorer for the County Show was trying to establish an independent territory.

This area would consist of parts of Northern California and Nevada, they would call Nataqua, a word that a woman in the local Indian language.

Later, in 1854, resolutions were on the Klamath country, including parts of northern California and southern Oregon.

Also in 1854, San Bernardino Assemblyman Jefferson Hunt was a bill for the creation of a new state of Columbia, the area of Santa Cruz at the Mexican border.

It is unlikely that California will always be shared. Any proposal for allocation of state has the assent of the legislature and then be approved by Congress.

Nevertheless, the state-splitting problem is often in the future, because it is an easy way for a politician to make space in the press.

About the author:

Alton Pryor has been a writer for magazines, newspapers, wire services, and for fifty years. He worked for United Press International in their Sacramento Bureau, handling both print and radio news. He then moved to Salinas, where he worked for the Salinas Californian daily newspaper for five years as editor of Western Ranch and Home, a weekend supplement.

In 1963, he joined California, Farmer magazine where he worked as a field editor for 27 years. When the magazine was sold, the new owners forced him into retirement. He has an intense interest in California and Western history after the sale of a number of short-500-word article on Southern California history. In his research of these stories, he is constantly on other stories that interest him, but not to the respective publication, which he then in writing. He started the collection of facts and ideas, as he researched, and finally turned it in his first book, "little known valley in California history."

Alton Pryor is the author of twelve books. His books can be found at http://www.stagecoachpublishing.com readers can e-mail to him stagecoach@surewest.net