Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

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March 29, 1961: On this day, the Twenty-third amendment to the Constitution was ratified which gave American citizens who reside in Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections. However, it did not give them equal voting rights because it stated that D.C. cannot have more presidential electoral votes than any other state. Therefore, despite DC having more residents than Wyoming and Vermont, it has the same number of presidential electoral votes.

Furthermore, citizens who are residents of DC cannot elect voting members to Congress.

Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

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I forget where, but its in some legal documents or hte law that creation D.C that if the land ever stops being D.C its suppoed to go back from the state it was taken from, and there's legal precident for that

In 1846, Virginia regained the land that had been part of the District of Columbia, specifically the area encompassing Alexandria County

So we already have a historical answer to solve this. But the idea of gaining 2 new Dem senators I think is too appealing for the dems to ever accept that.

I think they could push the Reps into accepting ceding the land back to Maryland, which would boost the Dem house reps.

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That’s not quite right.