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© Jonathan/Stock.Adobe.com This article was published on June 23, 2021, at Britannica’s ProCon.org, a nonpartisan issue-information source. The debate to grant Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico statehood pops up periodically in the news or US Congress. Versions of these debates have been popular since the early 1800s for DC, and since the 1950s for Puerto Rico, though debate over the latter’s autonomy or independence even occurred when the island was under Spanish colonial rule. The United States has not granted statehood to a jurisdiction since 1959 when Alaska was admitted on Jan. 3 and Hawaii on Aug. 21. The Admissions Clause (Article IV, Section 3) of the US Constitution grants Congress the power to create a new state: “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of t

Puerto ricoUnited statesWest virginiaMatt glassmanThen congressNational constitution centerGovernment affairs institute at georgetown universityUs congressAdmissions clauseSenior fellowGovernment affairs instituteGeorgetown universityப்வெர்டோ ரிக்கோஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்மேற்கு வர்ஜீனியாமேட் கண்ணாடி மனிதன்