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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it is unconstitutional. It has nothing to do with white-black or rich-poor. It was a mismanaged decision made back in 1790. The powers that be could have prevented this by paying the families that resided on the District land to move off the land so they would have voting rights, but they didn't. So, now we have this tragic turmoil. No matter how much people scream, cry, curse, pray, raise hell, or whatever, Washington DC cannot become a state. It has NOTHING to do with Republican-Democrat, seats, power, whatever. It is unconstitutional and cannot be changed. If a President comes along and if Congress were to form enough support to make DC a state, it would be overturned by the United States Supreme Court as UNCONSTITUTIONAL. What shocks me is the number of elected leaders who do not know the Constitution, or if they do know it, they disregard it (even though they took an oath to protect said Constitution).

I personally find it disgraceful that there are Americans living in the District of Columbia who cannot vote. BUT, what I find just as distasteful is that there are two easy viable ways to resolve this issue, but Mayor Bowser, Representative Holmes, and the citizens reject both options. Option #1 is too move out of DC, while option #2 is to have that part of DC returned to Maryland. If the land is returned to Maryland, Mayor Bowser could still form a city like government exactly like Falls Church City, Baltimore, and many other places. They would be a part of Maryland with Maryland benefits, but could be there own separate local city limit government. [/quote]

If you want to be pedantic, there's clearly nothing in the constitution that says that you can't carve out a portion of DC to create a new state.  Presumably the only reason you're dismissing that option is because you don't want to give DC voters two senate seats.[/quote]

The size of DC has already changed.  It used to contain two counties: Washington and Alexandria.  The county of Alexandria was returned to Virginia in 1846.  (Which is why we call it Washington, DC.  There used to be an Alexandria, DC.)  There is nothing in the Constitution that mandates a minimum size for the federal district; it would be possible to make a smaller federal district that encompassed just the central federal buildings and make the rest of the territory a state.

And your easy solutions are not easy.  Moving is difficult for many people, and people shouldn't have to move to vote, and there's not enough housing in the surrounding counties to absorb 700,000 new residents.  And Maryland doesn't want DC, so you can't just return it.  [/quote]

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