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Although many capitals are defined by constitution or legislation many long-time capitals have no legal designation as such: for example Bern Edinburgh Lisbon London Paris and Wellington They are recognised as capitals as a matter of convention and because all or almost all the country's central political institutions such as government departments supreme court legislature embassies etc. are located in or near them. Boundary Line Map of 1768 move the boundary West. !

Prior to World War II Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington on the site now occupied by the Pentagon and its parking lots it was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941 a short distance southeast After the war in 1948 the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital. Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region the initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park but protests from residents as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time led to reconsideration of this plan. One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County Maryland into an airport. In addition nearly 200,000 African-American men served with distinction in the Union forces as soldiers and sailors Most were escaped slaves the Confederacy was outraged by armed black soldiers and refused to treat them as prisoners of war They murdered many as at the Fort Pillow Massacre and re-enslaved others, 15.5 Primary sources Congress is directly responsible for the governing of the District of Columbia the current seat of the federal government. Native Americans as slaves The historian Ira Berlin called this forced migration of slaves the "Second Middle Passage" because it reproduced many of the same horrors as the Middle Passage (the name given to the transportation of slaves from Africa to North America) These sales of slaves broke up many families and caused much hardship Characterizing it as the "central event" in the life of a slave between the American Revolution and the Civil War Berlin wrote that whether slaves were directly uprooted or lived in fear that they or their families would be involuntarily moved "the massive deportation traumatized black people both slave and free." Individuals lost their connection to families and clans Added to the earlier colonists combining slaves from different tribes many ethnic Africans lost their knowledge of varying tribal origins in Africa Most were descended from families who had been in the United States for many generations. Places and monuments Further information: Presidency of Zachary Taylor Justification in the South Roger Sherman had served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. . . This omission was not related to any constitutional restriction or apparently any rationale at all Legal scholars in 2004 called the omission of voting rights a simple "historical accident" pointing out that the preceding Residence Act of July 16 1790 exercising the same constitutional authority over the same territory around the Potomac had protected the votes of the district's citizens in federal and state elections Those citizens had indeed continued to cast ballots from 1790 through 1800 for their U.S House representatives and for their Maryland and Virginia state legislators. James Madison had written in the Federalist No 43 that the citizens of the federal district should "of course" have their will represented "derived from their own suffrages." the necessary language simply did not appear in the 1801 legislation, Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur is the constitutional capital home of the King and seat of Parliament but the federal administrative centre and judiciary have been moved 30 kilometres (19 mi) south to Putrajaya, Louisiana was founded as a French colony Colonial officials in 1724 implemented Louis XIV of France's Code Noir which regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in New France and French Caribbean colonies This resulted in a different pattern of slavery in Louisiana purchased in 1803 compared to the rest of the United States as written the Code Noir gave some rights to slaves including the right to marry Although it authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions it forbade slave owners from torturing them or separating married couples (or to separate young children from their mothers) it also required the owners to instruct slaves in the Catholic faith. File:The United States Legislative Process - Committee Consideration (3) - Library of Congress.webm!