What would you call the 51st state? D.C. leaders settle on ‘New Columbia’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...711fd2125_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1
Constitutional Convention, anyone?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...711fd2125_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1
How does New Columbia sound? That may be the new name for the District of Columbia if the city wins its bid to become the 51st state, a statehood commission decided on Monday.
Settling on a name was among the most basic constitutional questions settled by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, D.C. shadow Sen. Paul Strauss and others on the five-member commission, which also approved a draft state constitution that calls for the creation of a 21-person state legislature.
Constitutional Convention, anyone?