The other day in my history class, I learned that my state "snuck" into the bill that would allow the Dakotas, Idaho, and Montana as states. The way this happened was, that the people in the then territory, formed their own Constitutional Congress (without permission from the US Congress), used parts of other State's and the US's Constitution (except that it distinctly says in the Wyoming Bill of Rights that citizens can own guns, not limited to a militia etc.), except for water (owned by the state) and women's sufferage (first state and territory to do so). And, probably the only thing that might have hindered Wyoming from becoming a state (a politician was able to convince the Congress about Wyoming being put into the bill), was the population. One of the Congressmen knew someone in Wyoming and wanted them to get a head count, thing was, the guy was the same one that put together the Constitutional Congress. So, they said that Wyoming (in Congress that is) had "sufficient" population to become a state. Which was 60,000. What made Congress originally question the population, was that only around 8,000 people voted.
Thoughts anyone?
Kinda of odd though.
