From: train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Makeup of the House (was Re: A Technical Request)
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:13:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Paramax Systems Corporation, Paoli PA

In article <13OCT199208542886@utahep.uta.edu>, sawyer@utahep.uta.edu
 (Lee Sawyer) writes:

|> D.C does not vote, I believe. 
|> 
|> This is an interesting thread - I would like to hear some clarification on D.C.
|> 
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|>          Lee Sawyer                                  
|> 

  Short History of the District O' Columbia:

  1.  Created as the Nation's Capital in the Constitution, land donated
      by the states of Maryland and Virginia.  Located to include the
      fall line of the Potomac River (the fall line is that point above
      which the river is not navigatable).  Thus, the city includes the
      piedmont and the coastal plane.  George Washington holds extensive
      parcels of land on the Virginia side of the Potomac river.  The location
      of the capital is a compromise;  in exchange for southern votes required
      to establish a bi-cameral legislature, the capital of the new nation will
      be located in the south, and to include two already thriving commercial
      ports; Alexandria, Virginia [slaves], and Georgetown, Maryland [coal].

  2.  Surveyed in 1791.  City plan completed by Pierre L'Enfant in the
      same year.  Known as the District of Columbia, Washington County.  
      City of Washington established as that area of Washington County that
      is on the coastal plane and north of the Potomac.  Washington City is
      demarcated from the rest of the County by Boundary Street (now Florida 
      Avenue).  To go north of Florida Avenue,  therefore, involves climbing a 
      hill.  L'Enfant's plan for Washington City is both radical and visionary:
      breathtaking right of ways for the streets (upwards of 100 feet), and
      two grid systems; a radial grid superimposed on a rectilinear grid.
      L'Enfant is stiffed on the payment for his city plan and dies in poverty.

  3.  Citizens of the new Federal jurisdiction deprived of the right to
      vote in the Constitution (which is why a Constitutional Amendment would
      be required to give them this right).

  4.  City of Alexandria, District of Columbia (formerly Alexandria, Virginia)
      goes bankrupt due to the expenses of constructing a canal.  Citizens
      vote in 1852 (I may be wrong on this date) to become - ta da! - 
      Alexandria, Virginia once again.  Virginia portion of the District of
      Columbia is returned to Virginia. 


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