It is amazing to me that the political rights of 700,000 people might be conditioned on the business interests of one man.
The United States is only democratic nation on Earth which disenfranchises the residents of the capital city in its nati...
There is no doubt that people tried to conscript constitutional arguments in the service of opposition to other people's...
The only way that we have admitted new states to the Union is through Congress.
This is the ridiculousness you get into when you try to draw a Federal city into a teacup.
Union and liberty, this was the cry of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans in the 19th century. It is the cry of the peo...
the point is exactly as you say. There is a constitutional ceiling but there is no floor.
Very quickly, Ms. Mayor, what is the name of the new state? Mayor Bowser. Washington, DC, Douglass Commonwealth.
the inescapable imperative of American history is to give everybody equal rights, equal citizenship, and the right to pa...
As I understand it, both Maryland and Virginia ceded land to Congress in 1791 and people continued to vote in Maryland o...
Will the gentleman yield?