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BeoBill · Jun 29, 2016

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

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? :lol:

swinokur · Jun 29, 2016

The original name suggested was

Chocolate City.

not kidding.

Decoy · Jun 29, 2016

DC was never meant to be a state.

"the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

"the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it."

Link

rbird7282 · Jun 29, 2016

Decoy said:
DC was never meant to be a state.

"the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

"the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it."

Link

THIS

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fscwi · Jun 30, 2016

hmmm given the choice between doing things the way the founding fathers wanted and how our current politicians want things done, yeh I think I'll go with the founding fathers.

K31 · Jun 30, 2016

I'm ok with DCexit.

BeoBill · Jun 30, 2016

Make it a Canadian province? Their politics align better with Canada.

Mr H · Jul 4, 2016

I still say let them do their thing, as long as they take all the MD and VA 'burb counties with them, and call it the State of Columbia.

Alea Jacta Est · Jul 4, 2016

They just want two more Dem Senators.

They could not survive for thirty seconds off the FED teat.

They can't pour p1ss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel now. Autonomy would be spelled disaster.

Two words....Marion Barry. Still a saint in the District and a deity in Ward 8.

EL1227 · Jul 4, 2016

Decoy said:
DC was never meant to be a state.

"the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

"the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it."

Link

Sounds like it would require a Constitutional amendment to allow it to apply to become a state.

Step 1) A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (38 of 50 States).

Step 2) A statehood request would need to pass a DC referendum which is marginal at best, even given Eleanor Norton Holmes' and Muriel Bowser's position on the matter.

Kagetsu · Jul 4, 2016

EL1227 said:
Sounds like it would require a Constitutional amendment to allow...

I'm probably not old enough to remember. When was the last time the Constitution got in the way of what the gov'ment wanted for the "greater good"?

WildIrishRose · Jul 5, 2016

fscwi said:
hmmm given the choice between doing things the way the founding fathers wanted and how our current politicians want things done, yeh I think I'll go with the founding fathers.

I agree. The founding fathers ran thing so much better than our current politicians.

WildIrishRose · Jul 5, 2016

BeoBill said:
Make it a Canadian province? Their politics align better with Canada.

I'm not so sure Canada would want them.

Jim12 · Jul 5, 2016

Decoy said:
DC was never meant to be a state.

"the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

"the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it."

Link

Yes. And its parking ticket police are bad enough, without statehood.

Boom Boom · Jul 5, 2016

Let's cut it loose and let it float down the Potomac, down the bay, and out to sea.

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