Elizabeth Warren was schooled with a quick constitutional lesson after filing a lawsuit that contradicts the founding document

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a quick lesson in constitutional law Monday after declaring that Washington, D.C., should become a state.

Without context, Warren simply tweeted, “DC should be a state.”

u201cD.C. should be a state.u201d

— Elizabeth Warren (@ElizabethWarren) 1675094661

Despite being just five words, the terse tweet generated a strong response and had more than 9 million views by Tuesday morning. The reason? People were quick to point out why the nation’s capital is not a state, because the Constitution, in its current form, forbids DC statehood.

“Senators should read the Constitution,” replied Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).“I suggest you read the Constitution first before tweeting about this again,” suggested Tim Kennedy. “You should read the constitution,” Graham Allen advised. “It doesn’t make sense to make a single city its own state. So if it does. If it wasn’t unconstitutional, DC should be absorbed into Maryland. But Liz wouldn’t want that because that’s not really what it’s about. It’s of rigging the system to get two more Democratic senators,” one person said. “Using the Constitution as a roller coaster?” another person answered.

In fact, Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution establishes the district as an independent entity, and therefore not as a state, for one important reason.

Politico explains:

The federal district was established in 1790 in accordance with the constitutional imperative that the seat of the federal government be under the control of Congress, rather than any other entity. (It’s right there in Article I, Section 8.) The reason, as James Madison explained in Federalist 43, was that the federal government was to be independent from the oversight of any state.

The district, no larger than 10 square miles, was located in its place on the Potomac River as a compromise between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, with George Washington himself surveying the territory.

The only way, therefore, that DC can become a state is through the ratification of a constitutional amendment granting it status.

For years, Democrats have argued that DC and Puerto Rico should be granted status. While D.C. regs, for example, bemoan “taxation without representation,” Democrats want statehood because it would likely increase their ability to maintain control of Congress.

With two likely Democratic senators representing each territory and a number of Democratic House members, Republicans would be poorly positioned to control Congress before an electoral landslide.

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