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Ideas for legislation can come from members lobbyists state legislatures constituents legislative counsel or executive agencies Anyone can write a bill but only members of Congress may introduce bills Most bills are not written by Congress members but originate from the Executive branch; interest groups often draft bills as well the usual next step is for the proposal to be passed to a committee for review a proposal is usually in one of these forms:, Andrew Adams Connecticut 1 Yes 15 External links Altered territories. . ; Mammals Richard Hutson South Carolina 1 Yes As specified by Article One of the United States Constitution in fact as one of the enumerated powers of section 8 Congress assumed direct administrative control of the federal district upon its creation by the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 There was no district governor or executive body the U.S House created a permanent Committee on the District of Columbia in January of 1808 and the U.S Senate established its counterpart in December 1816 These committees remained active until 1946. Thus the U.S Congress managed the detailed day-to-day governmental needs of the district through Acts of Congress -- an act authorizing the purchase of fire engines and construction of a firehouse for instance, or an act to commission three new city streets and closing two others in Georgetown. . Tallahassee Florida chosen as the midpoint between Pensacola and St Augustine Florida - then the two largest cities in Florida Tributaries of the South Branch of the Potomac River. American Slavery As it Is Sowell also notes in Ethnic America: a History citing historians Clement Eaton and Eugene Genovese that three-quarters of Southern white families owned no slaves at all. Most slaveholders lived on farms rather than plantations and few plantations were as large as the fictional ones depicted in Gone with the Wind in "The Real History of Slavery," Sowell draws the following conclusion regarding the macroeconomic value of slavery:, During the War of 1812 British Royal Navy commanders of the blockading fleet based at the Bermuda dockyard were instructed to offer freedom to defecting American slaves as the Crown had during the Revolutionary War Thousands of escaped slaves went over to the Crown with their families Men were recruited into the Corps of Colonial Marines on occupied Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

! Robert Morris president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety and one of the founders of the financial system of the United States, Political legacy William Williams Connecticut 1 Yes Washington's Farewell Address (September 19 1796) In June 1772 American patriots including John Brown burned a British warship that had been vigorously enforcing unpopular trade regulations in what became known as the Gaspee Affair the affair was investigated for possible treason but no action was taken. 3.1 Challenges in Mexico Increased federal spending as a result of the New Deal in the 1930s led to the construction of new government buildings memorials and museums in the District, though the chairman of the House Subcommittee on District Appropriations Ross A Collins from Mississippi justified cuts to funds for welfare and education for local residents stating that "my constituents wouldn't stand for spending money on niggers"! On March 21 1861 Vice President Alexander Stephens of the Confederacy delivered his Cornerstone Speech He explained the differences between the constitution of the Confederate Republic and that of the United States and laid out the cause for the American Civil War and a defense of slavery, "The Storm that Saved Washington" 6.6 Farewell Address Dred Scott v Sandford Kentucky 12,430 40,343 80,561 126,732 165,213 182,258 210,981 225,483!