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The idea of "retroceding" all or most of the remaining District to Maryland is a familiar part of the debate on D.C. voting rights.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Post 2011

The idea of "retroceding" all or most of the remaining District to Maryland is a familiar part of the debate on D.C. voting rights.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2011

The idea of “retroceding” all or most of the remaining District to Maryland is a familiar part of the debate on D.C. voting rights.

A better road to the vote: Retrocession, with a twist Greenbelt Michael Wein 2011

Although he says he's all for the District's residential neighborhoods retroceding back into Maryland to give the city's taxpayers full representation, he's not exactly using his authority over the city to push for that change.

Look Who's Partners On Gay Marriage 2009

Although he says he's all for the District's residential neighborhoods retroceding back into Maryland to give the city's taxpayers full representation, he's not exactly using his authority over the city to push for that change.

Look Who's Partners On Gay Marriage Marc Fisher 2009

It just points out that Connie had her terminology backwards: it would be the feds that would do the retroceding, not the former donor state and proposed recipient state.

I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House. Ann Althouse 2009

They have long hands and feet, legs thin, and the os coxigis retroceding.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

In 1846, however, Congress authorized a referendum on the question of retroceding Alexandria County to Virginia, and declared that jurisdiction should be relinquished to that State if a majority of the voters in the county voted in favor of the change.

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

In November, 1845, in answer to a letter soliciting his opinion on the constitutionality of the law of Congress retroceding Alexandria to

Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Josiah Quincy 1818

They have long hands and feet, legs thin, and the os coxigis retroceding.

The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790