[rjsimmon]

I think the rest of the country should have the option to vote for DC to be the first void.

[Hyman Roth]

Annex NOVA into DC

[OldNewYork]

Agree. And if they don’t want to be what they are, but still live there, then just have the residential parts revert back to being part of Maryland.

[GailA]

http://www.heritage.org/constitution#!/articles/4/essays/125/new-states-clause

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1

If I read this correctly it was an effort in name only? How do you read it?