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Commentary The first, second, and third installments in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and ...

Why the District of Columbia Should Not Be a State Commentary In June 1783, the Confederation Congress was meeting in what is now Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Continental soldiers surrounded the building demanding back pay. They were peaceful, but the intimidation was plain. Congress asked Pennsylvania authorities to clear away the demonstrators. Pennsylvania authorities refused to do so. Congress accordingly left Philadelphia for Princeton, New Jersey, thereby making that town the national capital for a short time. This incident confirmed the American Founders in their opinion that the...

22 State Republican AGs Oppose ‘Unconstitutional’ DC Statehood Bill Twenty-two Republican attorneys general have declared they will “challenge any attempt” to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, calling such efforts unconstitutional and bad policy. “If this Congress passes and President Biden signs this Act into law, we will use every legal tool at our disposal to defend the United States Constitution and the rights of our states from this unlawful effort to provide statehood to the District of Columbia,” the attorneys general wrote in an April 13 letter (pdf) to Preside...

"This ... is a grave diminution and deprivation in parental rights and in the relationship between parent and child," the Utah senator says.