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Detailed article: D.C. Statehood: Not Without a Constitutional Amendment
Posted By: MrFusion Date: Thursday, 22-Apr-2021 17:38:19
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In Response To: Practical and Legal Problems with D.C. Statehood (AndiV)
Note that this is from 1993 and discusses previous statehood plans, not the current one.
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D.C. Statehood: Not Without a Constitutional Amendment
August 27, 1993
R. Hewitt Pate
Statehood proposals for the District of Columbia have been around for years. Today, however, we have a President pledged to support D.C. statehood. Congress is controlled by the Democrats, whose platform supports statehood. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the so-called non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives from D.C., has introduced a statehood proposal in the current session of Congress.1 Jesse Jackson, the "Shadow Senator” from the District, was recently arrested while leading a group of pro-statehood protesters blocking an intersection near the Capitol.2 And readers of The Washington Post received an Independence Day issue of the Post's Sunday magazine devoted to the statehood cause.3 In short, statehood matters may be coming to a head in the political arena.
What most statehood proponents ignore, however, is a fundamental question that should precede their political campaign: even if it were a good idea, can Congress make D.C. a state without a constitutional amendment? As a partisan matter, support for statehood is almost exclusively Democratic, as would be New Columbia's congressional delegation. As a constitutional matter, however, the Justice Department under both Democratic and Republican administrations has consistently agreed that statehood for the District requires a constitutional amendment; it cannot be done by mere majority vote in Congress. A review of the District's history, the terms of the Constitution, and the practicalities of making D.C. a state, reveals that statehood legislation is ill-conceived at best.
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https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/dc-statehood-not-without-constitutional-amendment
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- JUST IN: U.S. House passes bill to make D.C. the 51st state
AndiV -- Thursday, 22-Apr-2021 14:10:27
- Practical and Legal Problems with D.C. Statehood
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- Detailed article: D.C. Statehood: Not Without a Constitutional Amendment
MrFusion -- Thursday, 22-Apr-2021 17:38:19
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