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- The U.S. Constitution in 1789 called for the creation of a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. As such, Washington, D.C., is not part of any state, and is not one itself.
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Apr 23, 2021 · Why do supporters think DC should be a state? The more than 700,000 people who live in Washington, DC, don’t have a voting member of Congress – only a delegate in the House – or...
Apr 15, 2016 · To this day, D.C. does not have voting representation in Congress, and the federal government maintains jurisdiction over the city. For proponents of D.C. statehood like Mayor Muriel Bowser,...
Mar 19, 2021 · The Washington, DC Admission Act—which would carve out an enclave, putting federal buildings within a stateless national capital, but create the new “State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth,”...
- After Reconstruction, Congress Abolishes D.C.’s Government
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Washington, D.C. is the ancestral home of the Nacotchtank people, also known as Anacostans. After British colonists drove them out of their land, it became part of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, both of these states ceded the territory to establish the District of Columbia as the capitalof the United States. At the time there were about 3,000 peop...
The 1870s system that denied D.C. residents the right vote for their own local government—as well as the congressional members and president who oversaw that government—stayed in place for nearly a century. During that time, D.C.’s Black population grew. In 1957, D.C. became the nation’s first predominantly-Black city. In 1970, the Black population...
Since 1980, D.C. has advocated for congressional representation through statehood. Activists and politicians have connected D.C.’s fight for representation to similar struggles in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. Like D.C. residents in 1960, the U.S. citizens who li...
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Jul 17, 2020 · Because at least in 2020, DC has virtually no chance of becoming a state. That June 26 vote was almost entirely along party lines; Democrats mostly voted in favor of DC statehood,...
Jun 26, 2020 · Today, the House passed her Washington, D.C., Admission Act, the first time in history that either chamber has voted to make the city a state.
May 16, 2021 · Because of its peculiar status, turning D.C. into a state is technically much harder than admitting the previous 37—and each problem solved presents a new obstacle, either legal or political.
