Posted on 07/19/2019 8:27:41 AM PDT by dangus
3. How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?
DC is a district, specified by USConstitution.
A district of crime, specifically.
A district not allowed to be a state.
Expand DC to cover everything from the first national capital to New York in the north, take in large swaths of New Jersey (or the whole puissant state) on the way to the first colonial capital in Philadelphia in the center and run it south to include everything north of the C&D Canal to the remaining rump of central Maryland, DC and the northern Virginia counties which are part of the DC metro area.
Rename it Maryland or Maryjersey in honor of the erased states, or the State of Columbia or Capitol District #13.
Option #2 was proposed back in the 80’s.
Maryland wanted absolutely no part of it.
Of course D.C. has since gentrified considerably,
so they may be willing to reconsider.
How about sitting them down and treating them like adults; tell them the answer is NO.
DC is too small to be a state. But, if its the mental well-being of the residents that wish to live in a state, I say give them vouchers for a bus ticket to Maryland.
Didn’t read the article, but my idea would be an amendment to the Constitution giving DC one Congressman and having them vote in MD Senatorial elections.
D.C. can bitch all they want. But nothing is going to change the status quo.
“The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.”
Okay, now I read it.
D. C. boundaries reduced to 1 mile x 1 mile.
The remainder returned to Maryland.
Virginia has already absorbed the part of D. C. that was in Virginia.
Let D.C. Annex the surrounding counties without becoming a state.
D.C. Gov gets more power through the bigger population (which is what they want most anyway).
Remind them that they don’t really have to live there.
All of them, at their choice.
The Founders did not want the National Capital to be in any state in part because they didn’t want a hostile state government to have any power over the national government. Imagine if New York City were still the capital of the U.S.
Giving most of the District back to MD sounds like a viable idea, until you read the 23rd Amendment. The Rump district would still have 3 Electoral votes in Presidential elections. Any big change in the District’s status will likely require a Constitutional Amendment.
I thought DC, as stated in the constitution, was supposed to be 10 square miles as the seat of the federal gov’t. Use eminent domain to seize & knock down every building not owned by FedGov within those limits & let everyone re-locate to someplace else.
Nothing, they live in a special district and once you start kowtowing to making changes the genie is out of the bottle
Leave it alone!
U-Haul
DC, love it or leave it.
The federal government was meant to be small.
Congressmen were meant to spend a few weeks at a boarding house and then return home.
Another possibility is to move the federal government to a place with 100 square miles of mostly grassland and cede the territory of what is now DC back to Maryland.
Give them nothing, nobody is forcing them to live there.
We should take away their electoral votes.
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