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Jun 17, 2020 · At the time there were about 3,000 people living in D.C.—too few to become a state—and white men who owned property in D.C. continued to vote in either Maryland or Virginia as they had...
- Becky Little
Jul 9, 2020 · The United States capital can't be a state itself because of the Constitution—but could it ever become one?
When the capital was officially moved to D.C., residents lost voting representation in Congress and the Electoral College, as well as a say in Constitutional Amendments and the right to home...
The district has no voting representation in Congress and is only treated as a state in presidential elections, when it gets three electoral votes.
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...
Jun 26, 2020 · Though Washington, D.C. is the seat of the federal government, it’s also home to residents who, despite obeying U.S. laws and paying taxes, have had no voting representation in Congress since...
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Mar 22, 2021 · Washington, D.C., was conveniently nestled between two slave states, Maryland and Virginia, which helped protect the slavery there from Northern interference. "That District became a bulwark of Southern legislative power, and slave trading and human bondage became legion there," Dickey says.
