Anti-gun Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi will never stop until they’ve solidified their power for generations to come The Founding Fathers seriously considered and explicitly denied the District statehood in Article 1, Section 8 Clause 17 of the Constitution. James Madison even wrote that denying statehood to the District was an “indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government.” In Federalist 43, Madison noted that if D.C. were made a state, then your elected representatives might become unduly influenced and even coerced by the District’s government. Of course, that is exactly what anti-gun Democrats want. Instead, the Founding Fathers decided that Congress “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever” over the District.