Solomaxwell6
Banned
The US Consitution calls for a Federal District 10 on a side.
The get This -Either- NY state gives away NY City -or- the Consitution is amended.
The constitution says Congress has the power to purchase a ten square mile Federal District, not that it has to, and it has to be willingly ceded by the state. There's no way New York's going to just give away half of Manhattan.
Edit: This is the relevant bit of the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power ... To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And