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March 28, 2006
D.C. Voting Rights Amendment
I was thinking about the problem of taxation without Representation in DC. There are few more offensive things I can imagine as an American. I've heard the Republican arguments that it would be a "guaranteed" Democratic seat, so they are opposed to it, but I don't think that's a really realistic concern. They should be more concerned that our founding fathers were willing to go to war with England over such injustice and we shouldn't tolerate it in a nation like ours. So I've written up a Constitutional Amendment to solve the problem. People read over it and tell me if I've left any obvious loopholes.
Section 1.
The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect in such manner as Congress may direct:
A Representative in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State. The Representative seat to which the District would be entitled if it were a State will be apportioned during the next Enumeration as prescribe in Article I, Section 2, as if it were a State.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
I only give them a Representative because the House is where all taxation bills have come from in our system of government, so it covers the issue of taxation without Representation, while not giving DC the full powers of a state. I think it's a decent compromise that makes everyone equally unhappy, while protecting fundamental American principals. Let me know what you think.
Posted by ManDrake at March 28, 2006 2:24 PM
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