Show new states state population has nothing to do with admitting a territory to statehood the constitution states new states may be admitted by the congress into this union but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more of the states or parts of states without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the congress political circumstances govern the of the states some territories have been made states though their population was only a handful while hawaii with a population larger than that of several of the states will probably never have other than a territorial government |