Full voting representation and full French legal, labor, and property rights were never offered to the entire sujet class.

They get no vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress, yet pay no federal income taxes.

Throughout its history, Washington, D.C. residents have therefore lacked voting representation in Congress.

The District is not a U.S. state and therefore has no voting representation in the Congress.

The District of Columbia is not a U.S. state and therefore has no voting representation.

He pledged to work toward making the district the 51st state, which would give city residents long-sought voting representation in Congress.

Also, the president appoints the District's judges, and the District still has no voting representation in Congress.

Baucus has voted against giving voting representation to the District of Columbia.

The District is suing to attain full voting representation in Congress.

Alternate proposals to statehood have been proposed to grant the District varying degrees of greater political autonomy and voting representation in the Congress.