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Message Subject Vote on Washington DC statehood schedule for today!
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Simple majority is needed once the proposed states constitution is approved and any conditions set by Congress are agreed to.

However there are numerous Constitutional questions that need to be resolved. Also there is a question of the states viability. Washington is basically a company town with no agriculture or manufacturing or industry.

Currently the Congress allocates 600,000,000 dollars to the district for costs of maintaining the district and it's infrastructure. The new state could never raise that revenue via taxes so is the gov't suppose to continue that payment (which they do not give to any other state).The Framers wanted a separate area, controlled by Congress, so they would not have to be dependent, beholding or held hostage to any state. What's to prevent the new state from cutting off or limiting services if they don't like the current administration?

Article IV, Section 3, which provides that no new state may be created out of the territory of an existing state without that state's permission. Maryland ceded it's land explicitly to create a seat of government not to create a new State. Maryland's permission would be required.

The 23rd amendment would need to be repealed as this specifically established DC as constitutional entity. The language of the amendment obviously recognizes an existing district of government of a particular size. And it refers to the District as a permanent constitutional entity.
Under the Constitution, if D.C. were to become a state it must be through the amendment process.

Only the people of the 50 states can approve this change to Washington and the Constitution that created the seat of government.
 
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