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  • Make DC Square Again. Retrocession Was Never Constitutional

    04/22/2026 3:17:30 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 20 replies
    The American Capital Project ^ | Unknown | Unknown
    In 1846, a third of the District of Columbia was stolen by Virginia to appease slaveholders. It is time to right that wrong and return to the borders laid down by George Washington himself. The One-Way Ratchet The Constitution gave Congress a one-way ratchet: the power to create a permanent seat of government by accepting cessions from states. Once that ratchet clicked forward in 1790, it was locked. The Constitution provides no mechanism to pull it back. Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to "exercise exclusive Legislation" over a district "not exceeding ten Miles square" that becomes "the...
  • A workable answer to the DC statehood question

    03/11/2019 10:41:21 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Hot Air.com ^ | March 11, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW
    The fight over statehood for the District of Columbia has been going on for as long as most you can probably remember. And in all that time, nothing has come of it. While DC residents do have some non-voting voices in the House, they don’t have full membership in the democracy club, leading to cries of taxation without representation. But what to do about it? The Constitution specifically sets aside room (up to ten miles square) for a federal capital and specifies that it will fall under the control of the federal government. Just converting the whole joint to a...