After the late-April demise of legislation that would have granted the District a voting seat in the House, plenty of activists and residents have been asking — what’s next? Yesterday Greater Greater Washington contributor David C. added his voice to the chorus of people proposing unconventional approaches to enfranchising District residents — a Territorial Representation Amendment.

According to David, the District is stuck because it’s just too small and too Democratic to ever realistically be granted statehood, and neither Maryland nor the District take the idea of retrocession too seriously. The solution he proposes involves joining forces with other U.S. territories facing similar circumstances — Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands — and crafting a constitutional amendment that would grant House representation to each based on population and two senators for the whole lot. Puerto Rico would get six House votes, the District one and the remaining territories would share one. The two senators would be voted on by all the territories, and given Puerto Rico’s size, would likely come from there.