WHEREAS, democracy is the system of government established in the United States; and

WHEREAS, the residents of the District of Columbia live under colonial status with appointed rather than elected city officials; and

WHEREAS, the residents of the District of Columbia have previously experienced self-government for a period of seventy years; and

WHEREAS, the Senate of the United States has passed on five separate occasions by large majority self-government measures for DC; and

WHEREAS, the present colonial status is unfair to District residents, and embarrassing to the United States government;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urge the Congress to return self-government to the Capitol of the nation.