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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing in the constitution that requires you to keep living here. [/quote]

Doesn't make it morally or ethically right based on the founding principles of our country.

I know, I know, you don't care.[/quote]

The founding principles of our country?  Like the documents where the founders expressly decreed that DC would be a federal district and not a state?[/quote]

This has been debated since its inception. Our founding fathers also felt that government should be modified to suit the needs of the people with changing times. See Declaration of Independence text. See Constitutional amendments.  See history of legislature modifications to try to "fix" the issue ever since. Our founders also lived in a time of other wrongs, you know that right? Or should we go back to slavery, women not having the right to vote, etc. etc. etc.?

With 700k US citizens residing in DC, I, and many others, feel that a modification is needed. Perhaps you disagree, but  the winds of time do eventually push towards justice. We'll get to a better solution eventually. [/quote]

Equating DC's status as a federal district to the past wrongs of slavery and a lack of universal suffrage is offensive.[/quote]

Our government actually debated to what extent depriving DC residents of congressional representation equated a deprivation of rights as in slavery or as in the previous monarchy rule they had escaped, but ok.[/quote]

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