If We are to be Just, We Should Create the State of Columbia

   About as quick as we find something wrong in America -- as quick as we find an injustice -- we should change it. So, what are we waiting for in the District of Columbia?
   Do you know what the slogan on the D.C. license plate is? "Taxation Without Representation." Comical? Yes. But, it is also a sobering statement, a cry from the residents to please give them representation in the halls of Congress.
  We should grant them statehood.
   The Founding Fathers never intended for these people to lack representation. Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress authority to exercise exclusive legislation over a small area that might be purchased by the federal government to serve as a seat of government. Congress was given authority to legislate "for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings."
   I would suggest the clause only intended to give Congress legislative authority over such things as the erection of needful buildings and facilities. By contrast, Congress has claimed supreme authority over the federal district, and can overturn anything the city council does.
  The founders didn't foresee Washington, D.C. blossoming into a city of 682,000, nor did they intend to deprive them of the representative form of government the rest of the nation was given.They were thinking the district would house needful buildings and facilities, but they had no thought that a large body of people would end up living there.
   Wrong is wrong. These people are being unjustly governed, unjustly treated. We should have changed this long ago, but since we haven't, we should do so now, without further delay.
   So, create the State of Columbia. Now, don't keep it as small as it now is. That would make if by far smaller than the existing smallest state, Rhode Island, yet it would be awarded two senators. Rather, I would expand it so the State of Columbia includes the metropolitan area, giving it a population of more than 6 million. Or,  include the Baltimore area in the new state, upping the population to about a million, perhaps making it one of the 10 largest states in the union.

Section 8

1: The Congress shall have Power To  unrepresented in the halls of Congress.


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