Estados Unidos: Washington DC is located in the Estado 51 de la Unión | International

The EE UU banners that a group of residents of the Washington city endeavor are lunes in front of the Capitol do not contain the classic 50 stars -one per city Estado-, sino 51. Since the city of the city, Muriel Bowser, hasta activists due to the fact that the District of Columbia (DC) is located in the 51st State of the Union, Korean lema “Estadidad Ahora”. Stasha Rhodes, jefa de la campña “51 for 51”, a group that aboga because Washington finds in Estado, consider that the District of Columbia is much more than a machine to make politics. “Many North American people think of DC as the place where the Capitol is, the White House or the National Mall”, declares in an interview on NPR public radio. “But what he does not think is the enemy in the 700,000 Washingtonians who do not have access to all the democracy that the world has.”

Many are examples that show manifestations, for the defenders of the state, the need for DC conversion in a state: how badly the pandemic reacts; that President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard’s statement during the pacifist protests against the blacks’ rights; the lack of preparation and rapid response precedes the ascent of January 6 to the Capitol. The Gobernador District District and its representative before the Congress did not have the right to vote.

Así reiteraba este lunes esa representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, which has been hailed by the state of affairs for three decades, since which in 1993 a project was presented to them at the Congress which, in order to promote the first debate on the topic in the Capitol, was immediately rejected: 277 votes in favor of 153 .

Norton has just begun airing and on June 26, in a historic vote, the House of Representatives will approve the transfer of Washington DC to the 51st State of the Union. The final result was 232-180.

In the face of the euphoria of Democrats and Washingtonians, the Republican Party calls the decision as a maneuver to obtain more political power from the Democratic Party, which automatically debates the territorial composition of democracy in the Democratic Party. High. The state of affairs, without doubt, the dynamics of a Senate giving the members of the rural conservatives can own a disproportionate influence in the votes, the federal tribunals and the presidential nominations.

Those who oppose the status quo argue, moreover, that the Founding Fathers disagree that the capital should be clearly separated from the rest of the States. Fueron los vecinos Estados de Maryland en Virginia quienes cedieron tierras en la decada de 1780 para la creasation de una federal federal a la largo del río Potomac. Washington, District of Columbia, was converted into the permanent capital of the United States in 1790. The new state was renamed Washington Douglass Commonwealth, including the first president of the nation, George Washington, and the prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

This Monday, the Board of Supervisors and Reform of the House of Representatives will hold an audience to hear arguments about what Washington DC deserves. The chair of the committee, Carolyn Maloney, declared that adding DC as a state would “not have to deal with politics, no equality and democracy.” In his opinion, “it is the responsibility of the Congress to ensure that all Americans can enjoy full form of the rights established in the Constitution.”

The project of ley, known as HR 51, seeks “equity and justice”, in Norton terms, about all that Washington’s residents have most affected that at least 22 others and contribute more per capita to the federal governing body that has other jurisdiction, and only “has no vote in Congress”.

Famous are the records of the coaches of the District by the only indicative of the one that has been printed: “Impuestos sin Representación”. Rhodes, from 51 to 51, considers, moreover, that to vote without the Congress to 700,000 citizens, the majority of blacks and Latinos, is a question of “racism”. “Residents of DC heidense federal taxes and serve in the Ejército, but without embargo do not have a vote in Congress,” said Rhodes activist. “It is an injustice and, frankly, a mistake in the democracy of the EU.”

President Joe Biden has a favorite of the la estadidad durante la pasada campña elections a la Casa Blanca. The Democrat of DC sees that State 51 is shocked by the reality of filibusterism when it comes to the Senate and has a majority of 60 votes to approve it. The Senate held a 50/50 composition ballot in the by-elections, with a vote of no confidence in the Vice President, Democrat Kamala Harris. For there is one who doubts that the dead man dies. Without embarrassment, the cauldron of the city assures that the historical error will be corrected. “Here we are without a vote [en el Congreso], but a jury that did not die here without a vote ”.

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