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51st State Resolution
51st State Resolution
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1 (a) The United States of America was founded on the belief that all people are
2 endowed with certain inalienable rights and that to secure these rights, governments are
4 (b) The rights of the residents of the District of Columbia are abridged when the
5 United States Congress imposes its will on local matters and denies us voting representation on
7 (c) The people of the District of Columbia are the only Americans who still bear all
8 the responsibilities of citizenship, including local sovereignty and representation in both houses
10 (d) Statehood will ensure that residents of the District of Columbia enjoy full sovereign
11 rights in state and local matters, voting representation in both houses of the U.S. Congress, and
12 an unrestricted vote for President, just like every other citizen of the United States of America.
13 (e) It is the sense of the Council to encourage our Delegate to the U.S. House of
14 Representatives to introduce legislation calling on Congress to use its powers under Article IV,
15 Section 3, of the United States Constitution and admit the District of Columbia as the 51st State
16 of the Union.
17 Sec. 4. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this
18 resolution, upon its adoption, to District of Columbia Delegate to the U.S. House of