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Old 05-16-2019, 08:25 AM   #1034
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Default Re: New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
The simple fact that there is no provision for dealing with a state whose people no longer live there is part of the problem.
By definition unforeseen events (or events like abolition which were foreseen but so explosive that it was felt necessary to put them off) are taken care of by amendment procedure which requires supervoting unlike normal procedure. If it becomes needed to declare empty territory Federal land, it was assumed such things would be handled that way.
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