On June 19 2011 Bill was gunned down and murdered by page public servant Shawn WIlson.
The District of Columbia Act of 1871
Initial
review of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 seems like it
only sets up a local government (like Chicago or Seattle); how do you
get that they formed a private corporation?
If you take the Act
out of its historical context and, from the present looking to the past,
imagine who the parties involved are, we might agree. However, we
cannot do that; to best understand what really happened we follow our:
Standard for Review
Rule 1: To understand any relationship you must:
1. First understand who the parties are;
a. Always know yourself first
b. Discover the true nature of all other parties second
2. Then you must understand the environmental nature of the relationship; and,
3. Only then do the actual terms of the relationship begin to have meaning and bearing on the relationship.
Rule
2: To have any hope of understanding any particular situation in any
relationship you must have first applied Rule 1, only then do the
details of the situation in question have any meaning; therefore, review
such details in accord with Rule 1 as well.
Thus, to understand
the parties involved in the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871,
we must first understand who the parties are involved in the
relationship described by the Act. We are not here going to delve into
the Act in its entirety, suffice it to say, looking over the situation
we find the Act is one made by the original jurisdiction Congress, set
by the Constitution for the United States of America. The District of
Columbia Organic Act of 1871 describes its venue as: "all that part of
the territory of the United States included within the limits of the
District of Columbia". The District of Columbia was originally provided
for in the Constitution for the United States of America (9-17-1787) at
Article 1 Section 8, specifically in the last two clauses. Then, on July
16, 1790, in accord with the provisions of those clauses, the Territory
was formed in the District of Columbia Act, wherein the "ten mile
square" territory was permanently created and made the permanent
location of the country's government, that is to say, the "territory"
includes the actual government. Under the Act Congress also made the
President the civic leader of the local government in all matters in
said Territory. Then on February 27, 1801, under the second District of
Columbia Act, two counties were formed and their respective officers and
district judges were appointed. Further, the established town
governments of Alexandria, Georgetown and Washington were recognized as
constituted and placed under the laws of the District, its judges, etc.
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly called this act the
"District of Columbia Organization Act" or the "Charter Act of the
District of Columbia" and recognized it as the incorporation of the
"municipality" known as the "District of Columbia". Then on March 3,
1801 a Supplementary Act to that last Act, noted here, added the
authority that the Marshals appointed by the respective District Court
Judges collectively form a County Commission with the authority to
appoint all officers as may be needed in similarity to the respective
State officials in the states whence the counties Washington and
Alexandria came, those being Maryland and Virginia, respectively.
According
to the United States Supreme Court those charter acts (first acts) were
the official incorporation of the formal government of the District of
Columbia as chartered by Congress in accord with the Constitution's
provision. Again, the Supreme Court called that body of government "a
corporation", with the right to sue and be sued. Since 1801 The
District of Columbia has been consistently recognized as a "municipal
corporation" with its own government.
Congress wrote:
That all
that part of the territory of the United States included within the
limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created
into a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name
it is hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes ...
and exercise all other powers of a municipal corporation
District of Columbia Act of 1871 Defacto formed 1: http://youtu.be/XPkauG6qE8k via @youtube
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