<x-flowed>There are simple solutions which would require no constitutional amendments.

First, on election of representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives, nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires the allocated members be elected by single-member districts, or that once elected and seated, they each cast one vote in the proceedings of the House. The remedy would be for
(1) Elect all representatives at large, declaring the top n votegetters the winners, where n is the number of representatives allocated.
(2) Amend the Rules of the House such that each member casts a number of votes equal to the number of voters who voted for him in the last election. Essentially, the voting would be proxy voting, the way shareholders vote in shareholder meetings of corporations.

Second, amend the acceptance of the cession of the territory of the District of Columbia from Maryland to specify that while the territory was ceded, the inhabitants remain citizens of Maryland for purposes of electing members of Congress and presidential electors. After all, the inhabitants of other federal enclaves created under U.S. Const. Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 17 remain citizens of the ceding states for voting purposes. It is time to simply recognize that removing the state citizenship of DC inhabitants was a historic mistake.

A little reflection on these proposals should enable the discovery of their merits.

-- Jon

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