Gold Coast Proposition 11

The Gold Coast Proposition 11 was a successful ballot held in the Sierran province of the Gold Coast that appeared on the province's October 1998 general ballot. The measure called for permitting the Channel Islands to formally and legally from the province in order to form its own territory. The measure passed on October 16, 1998, and was the first instance in Sierran history wherein a political secession was allowed within the Kingdom. Although the Channels sought provincial status, Parliament passed a law that year preventing territories that seceded from existing provinces to obtain provincial status for at least 10 years following secession. 18 years since the proposition was passed, and 8 years after the legal restriction period however, the Channels has yet to formally request provincial status, remaining the Kingdom's only territory that is incorporated and organized, but not a province or a constituent country.

Proposition 11 was originally presented to the Gold Coast Provincial Legislature in 1997 with over 333,000 signatures, satisfying the province's minimum threshold requirement of 200,000 for civilian proposed legislation to be considered by the legislature. The proposition was approved in both houses with relative ease, and was placed on the upcoming year's general electoral ballot. The Channels, a predominantly French-speaking collection of islands off the coast of the Gold Coast in the, had been part of the Gold Coast since the islands' acquisition by the Kingdom of Sierra's predecessor, the California Republic from Mexico in 1848.

Constitutionally speaking, secession is legally permitted in the Kingdom under the Fourth Amendment. In the case of territory seceding from an existing province to form another territory that nonetheless remains a part of the Kingdom, this is situation is not explicitly mentioned in this amendment. This particular form of secession, known as a partition, is however covered in Article VIII, which requires that all provinces affected by such a partition consent to it through their legislatures, and receives approval by Parliament and a royal assent by the Monarch, similar to the requirements proscribed.