Washington DC Voting Rights Amendment

Washington DC Voting Rights Amendment
An attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution to give the citizens of the District of Columbia the same full representation in Congress as any state. Proposed in 1978, the amendment expired in 1985 and was never ratified.
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