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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by culturestate on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:41PM (#15389436)
There's another more important problem for that specific situation: statehood (and the equivalent representation) for D.C. would require a constitutional amendment.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by emodendroket on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:34AM (#15391646)
So what? We've done that before.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by culturestate on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @02:47AM (#15398714)
It's actually incredibly difficult to get a constitutional amendment heard and ratified. Even the equal rights amendment was shouted down despite massive bipartisan support.

[Note] Also, such an amendment has already been sent to the states and failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Voting_Ri...

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by emodendroket on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:25AM (#15400269)
I'm not denying that it's difficult, but it's been done, depending on how you want to count, either 27 or 18 times already. And there's no rule saying you can't consider an amendment again if it doesn't pass once.
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