Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Not Only Should Washington DC Not be a State, It Legally Can't" video.

  1. DC is the original "federal zone"; it's the "grounds" of the president's residence...his home. Constitutionally, it's the job of Congress and the President to govern DC. This "dual function" of Congress, some argue, has led to a situation where the laws passed by Congress for the governance of DC gets "confused" so that these laws are presumed to be applicable to the country at large. Much of what Congress does falls within this category. Congress has NO business passing legislation that controls guns, for instance, for the whole country! For DC, they could try it. Congress has used this confusion to compromise the ninth and tenth amendments, trying to convince us they have this prerogative.
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  2. If dems win it all, there'd likely be an amendment to the constitution to make DC a state--maybe a super-duper state...hahaha...
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