Kentucky in Washington
Subtitle: A History in Brief of Participation of Kentucky through Kentuckians in Affairs at Washington 1792 to 1928
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780548029275
Subjects: History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Politics / Current Events
First sentence: The District of Columbia, as Washington officially is known, was established under the authority and direction of acts of Congress approved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to give effect to a clause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress the 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 dockyards, and other needful buildings."