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human
ELI5: Can countries do the opposite of a state seceding? For instance, could the US "kick out" one of its' states and force it to become its own country?

Couldn't find anything about this upon searching. Thanks in advance!
gpt
Yes. In fact there have been nations that have been formed because they were kicked out. Singapore is an example - they got kicked out of Malaysia. 

In the context of the US, there is no way in the US constitution for a state to be expelled from the union. Any attempt to do so would require an amendment of constitution. Actually, if the circumstances were ever such that a state needed to be kicked out for some hypothetical reason, it's likely that there would be a constitutional crisis.