The Constitution gives the U. S. Congress power over the District of Columbia, per Article I, Section 8, clause 17 to “exercise exclusive legislation in all Cases whatsoever over such capital district…as may… become the seat of the Government of the United States” as well as enclaves it might acquire.

Each American citizen is represented in Congress by one person in the House of Representatives and two Senators except citizens of the nation’s capital (and those living in territories, where other factors operate).

• D.C. was part of the original colonies; its citizens did vote in Congress before the capital was moved to D.C.; D.C. citizens are inheritors of the Constitutional claim for voting rights, equal treatment under the law, and other principles.
• Americans living in the nation’s capital — Americans who pay federal taxes and can be called to war — should be treated as other Americans.
• According to the “Federalist Papers,” the lack of attention in the Constitution to D.C.’s situation reflects an oversight.
• In the last official (1990) census, the District’s population (over 600,000) was greater than that of several states (Alaska, Wyoming and Vermont)…

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