{"id":49,"date":"2013-06-02T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:47:42","slug":"sections-5-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"Section 5: DC and the Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Within one year of the ratification of this amendment, every citizen of the United States shall be the citizen of a State.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The new design of the Senate ensures that even tiny states will not have disproportionately large representation in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Congress would almost certainly vote to make DC a state.<\/p>\n<p>The territories should probably have a referendum as to whether they want to be a state or an independent nation. Statehood should require the consent of both the territory and Congress. Otherwise, the territory should become independent.<\/p>\n<p>A year should be enough time to sort this out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/?page_id=2769\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within one year of the ratification of this amendment, every citizen of the United States shall be the citizen of a State. The new design of the Senate ensures that even tiny states will not have disproportionately large representation in the Senate. Congress would almost certainly vote to make DC a state. The territories should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendmentproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}