Home Rule: D.C.'s Fight for its own Democracy
Update: 2025-10-29
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The passage of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in 1973 marked a pivotal moment in the long and unfinished struggle for democracy in the nation's capital. Washington, D.C. has always occupied a paradoxical space in American life: the symbolic heart of the republic, yet for much of its history, denied the very principles of self-government that the United States was founded upon.
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