Welcome to DC.

Where Government by Consent of the Governed has been passe for several centuries now (since 1801).  Where Americans have consistently, persistently and insistently imposed their own peculiar brand of tyranny on their own fellow citizens for far longer than living memory.

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." Jonathan Swift

Both the Declaratory Act of 1766 and the District Clause of the US Constitution (qv) are unwarranted attempts by a national legislature to arrogate to themselves Absolute Power "in all cases whatsoever" over an unrepresented minority of the national population, in an obvious and egregious violation of a fundamental first principle of participatory government, that it "deriv[es] just power from the consent of the Governed."  This persistent, consistent, and insistent violation of fundamental first principles degrades the very legitimacy of the government.