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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If citizens wanted to ensure they were represented re statehood, why would they chose to within the District? By opting to live there, they chose other factors above representation, which is totally fine to do and their right. Clearly representation was not an important factor in deciding where to live. It’s not like representation was taken away once the citizens settled within the District. [/quote]

Taxation without representation was the whole reason for the Boston Tea Party and movement to independence from the British.   It's fundamentally American but we are stuck in an archaic construct.[/quote]

Move.  [/quote]

BS. Let the people vote. Why do you want Americans who are not empowered to contribute to the management of iur country while taking their money?[/quote]

But you knew this before you moved to DC? You knew the contract you were signing up for. Nothing has changed to that contract. [/quote]

Born here. Generations here. Freed slaves here. Sorry, we were here before that contract.[/quote]

You've had someone from your family live in the DC area before it was declared a District and partitioned from MD?? Wow... quite a family history you must have. I guess that history also indicates that representation was never a big deal to your ancestors if nobody ever moved away (all the way to like PG, Montgomery, Arlington or Alexandria counties)[/quote]

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