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Feb 12, 2011

Smooth Sailing for D.C. Voting Rights… in 1978

Photo by Ronnie R. This is a great look into the history of D.C. voting rights courtesy of Twitter user kcivey. An article, run in 1978 in the now-defunct Washington Star, outlines the easy time a proposed amendment to the Constitution to allow full representation for D.C. in Congress would have passing. In fact, the text of the amendment would have let D.C. be “treated as though it were a State” without it actually…

 
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