Statehood Initiative: Hearing and Markup Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventy Congress, First Session, on H. Con. Res. 75 ... March 4, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 197 lappuses |
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78. lappuse - ... (1) That the inhabitants of the proposed new State are imbued with and sympathetic toward the principles of democracy as exemplified in the American form of government; (2) That a majority of the electorate desire statehood; and (3) That the proposed new State has sufficient population and resources to support State government and to provide its share of the cost of the Federal Government.
195. lappuse - Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such...
78. lappuse - Senate committee report accompanying the most recent admission act sets forth these standards as follows: "(1) That the inhabitants of the proposed new state are imbued with and sympathetic toward the principles of democracy as exemplified in the American form of government; (2...
89. lappuse - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory of other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
65. lappuse - The House of Representatives is to be composed of members chosen by the people of the several States, and each State shall have at least one representative.
57. lappuse - Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, (not exceeding ten miles square,) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States...
76. lappuse - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union." It does not, however, define the conditions under which statehood may be granted. Congress, therefore, has the power to determine the prerequisites of admission. This general authority is limited by only two restrictions: (1) No new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State"; (2) no State can "be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of...
144. lappuse - ... United States therein specified. Assuming, without deciding, that if the cession of jurisdiction to the United States had been free from condition or limitation, the land should be treated and considered as within the sole jurisdiction of the United States, it is clear that under the circumstances here existing, in view of the reservation made by the State of New York in the act ceding jurisdiction, the exclusive authority of the United States over the land covered by the lease was at least suspended...