Becoming a state

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Each new state is guaranteed security and support.

Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Establishing a state is a very long process. A country that wants to join the United States must adopt its own constitution that will satisfy Congress. The accepted territory cannot leave the United States.

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