Giving the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the territories congressfolk

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I'd like to point something out: when DC was put under federal control, the rationale was that the Founders didn't want one state to have a leg-up against all the others due to holding the nation's capital. It was a good decision at the time, because the states were still very much their own thing and the US was much more decentralised.

Now, however, the federal government is stronger and the states don't consider themselves to be separate nations. The issue of federal power vs states' rights was settled first with Jackson, then with the Civil War, and was put to an end under the New Deal. Now, it doesn't really matter which state has the nation's capital aside from maybe an electoral vote. Whatever wisdom existed in having DC be a federally controlled district no longer applies