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District of Columbia Council Approves Statehood Resolution |
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http://www.dccouncil.us/images/00001/20110303113457.pdf
A RESOLUTION 19-41 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA March 1, 2011
To declare the sense of the Council to thank our Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for introducing legislation calling on Congress to use its powers under Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States and admit the District of Columbia as the 51st State of the Union.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Sense of the Council on Calling on Congress to Admit the District of Columbia as the 51st State of the Union Resolution of 2011”.
Sec. 2. The Council finds that: (1) The United States of America was founded on the belief that all people are endowed with certain inalienable rights and that to secure these rights, governments are instituted, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. (2) The rights of the residents of the District of Columbia are abridged when the United States Congress imposes its will on local matters and denies us voting representation on federal issues in both houses of the United States Congress. (3) The people of the District of Columbia are the only Americans who still bear all the responsibilities of citizenship, including local sovereignty, without representation in both houses of Congress, making the District of Columbia, in effect, a colony under Congressional jurisdiction. (4) Statehood will ensure that residents of the District of Columbia enjoy full sovereign rights in state and local matters, voting representation in both houses of the United States Congress, and an unrestricted vote for President, just like every other citizen of the United States of America.
Sec. 3. It is the sense of the Council to thank our Delegate to the United States House of Representatives for introducing legislation calling on Congress to use its powers under Section 3 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States and admit the District of Columbia as the 51st State of the Union.
Sec. 4. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, to District of Columbia Delegate to the United States House of Representatives and the Mayor.
Sec. 5. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in the District of Columbia Register.
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