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Originally Posted by orthodoxymoron
The only reference I could locate regarding a Washington D.C. constitution was in a chronology which I found on narpac.org http://www.narpac.org/ITXDCHIS.HTM :
November 4, 1980: District electors approve the District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention of 1979, which became D.C. Law 3-171 and which called for convening a state constitutional convention.
November 2, 1982: After the constitutional convention, a Constitution for the State of New Columbia is ratified by District voters. |
This is a record of the effort to make DC a state...
I wonder whether we can find the text of the "District of Columbia Act of 1871"...