Title: Drowning in Tyranny
Description: ***Drowning in Tyranny*** discloses the mechanism used by the government of the United States to expand well beyond the spirit of the Constitution even as it follows its letter, by acting within the authority of essentially but one of its clauses, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17.
This clause provides Congress with the power and authority to exercise 'exclusive' legislation "in all Cases whatsoever" over the district constituted as the seat of government of the United States.
Subjects: seat of government, Cohens v. Virginia, federal criminal jurisdiction, once and for all amendment, treason, felonies committed on the high seas, piracy, counterfeiting, seed of tyranny, Constitution, tyranny, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, District of Columbia, in all cases whatsoever, 1766 Declaratory Act, ten miles square, bank of the United States
People: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Edmund Randolph