Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 51 (Introduced in House) — To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. · Sec. 101

Sec. 101. Admission into the Union

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Subject to the provisions of this Act, upon issuance of the proclamation required by section 103(b), the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth is declared to be a State of the United States of America, and is declared admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects whatever. The State Constitution shall always be republican in form and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.