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/* /* Age of consent in the US */ new section */ new section
The statement concerning the status in 1880 needs clarification. It refers to 48 states (37, 10, and 1), presumably intending to exclude Alaska and Hawaii, which were admitted in 1950. However, there were ten states admitted to the union after 1880. If those ten states were identifiable territories in 1880, then perhaps the statement is essentially accurate, but the territorial status should be noted. North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona were the states admitted after 1880 that get us to a total of 48. It would be useful to confirm that the territories that became those states were sufficiently identifiable in 1880 as to make the factual statement about the age of consent accurate.