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Originally Posted by Drolefille
It would continue to make sense if there weren't a bunch of people living there, but there are.
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Under the original Constitution, votes were apportioned to the people in the House. The Senate was appointed by the states themselves. As D.C. isn't a state, I can't see any justification for them having a voice in the Senate.
As for the House, I'm not sure what D.C. has to complain about. They are #1 in per student funding (by a wide margin), etc., they don't have much to complain about there.
As for autonomy, symbolically, I think the arrangement is ideal. The states rule over the capitol rather than the capitol ruling over the states.