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Beck & Stone If taxation without representation is the problem, Democrats don’t seem interested in solutions.
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to make Washington, D.C. a state and limit the area of exclusive federal jurisdiction to certain federal buildings and monuments. The goal of this legislation, according to its proponents, is to remedy the problem of the disenfranchisement of the residents of the District.
In addition to being almost certainly unconstitutional, the bill appears to be motivated by power rather than principle. If Congress were truly concerned about the taxation of Washingtonians without real congressional representation, there are ways to resolve the current dilemma without benefitting only one major political party. Congress could, by ordinary legislation, return the existing lands in the District back to the states from which they were ceded, or by constitutional amendment provide that the citizens of the federal District shall be treated, for purposes of federal elections, as citizens of the state from which the land on which they reside was ceded. Yet Congress is choosing the path that, if it were constitutional, would exclusively benefit the Democratic Party.
The framers provided for a federal district over which Congress would enjoy exclusive legislation because of their experience under the Articles of Confederation. In 1783, a mob of former soldiers descended on the seat of government in Philadelphia demanding payment for services in the Revolutionary War, and the Pennsylvania Governor refused to call forth the militia to protect the federal representatives. It was evident that the national legislature could not count on the honor of the state governments for their protection. Thus, Article I, §10 of the new Constitution allowed Congress “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.”
James Madison, in Federalist #43 , connected this clause to the events earlier in the decade. Without the power of exclusive legislation over a federal district, not only the public authority might be insulted […]
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