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  Do you support DC statehood? (search mode)
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Question: Should the District of Columbia become the Douglass Commonwealth?
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Author Topic: Do you support DC statehood?  (Read 4096 times)
AGA
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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 12, 2020, 04:13:38 PM »

Is this even constitutionally feasible? Would the federal district be restricted to just the federal buildings, and if so, would it still get electoral votes?
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AGA
Atlas Politician
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 5,277
United States


Political Matrix
E: 0.39, S: -5.39

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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2020, 10:05:56 PM »
« Edited: October 18, 2020, 10:23:32 PM by AGA »

The Constitution should be amended to expand the House by two seats, one for DC and one more for the rest of the country (so that neither the electoral college nor the House can tie), and DC should (maybe) get two senators. I do not support statehood per se because I think that the federal government should have total control over its main buildings and that the plan of carving out the area with the federal buildings is too messy.
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