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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]

[b]Alexandria was never part of DC[/b]. Arlington was, which is why its borders look like it was part of the same square as DC. We returned it to Virginia in the mid 1800s.[/quote]

Wrong

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