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Punjab and Haryana: Both states share Chandigarh as their capital city the city itself is administered as a Union territory, Alexander Hamilton New York 1 Yes 14 Bibliography 4.1.3 Officer; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney South Carolina 1 Yes, 6 Accidents and incidents Canberra Australia chosen as a compromise located between Melbourne and Sydney, Slaves on J J Smith's cotton plantation near Beaufort South Carolina photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan standing before their quarters in 1862. Distribution of slaves, Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses it reflects our regional idiosyncrasies our ethnic religious and racial diversity our multitude of professions and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values Congress is the government's most representative body . Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day, In order to garner enough votes to pass the Assumption Bill Hamilton also needed votes from the Pennsylvania delegates This led to the decision to designate Philadelphia as the temporary capital city of the United States federal government for a period of ten years until the permanent capital was ready. Congress reconvened in Philadelphia on December 6 1790 at Congress Hall. Source of data: USGS, Washington D.C during the later stages of the War, Historical graph of party control of the Senate House and Presidency. Since 1980 the Democrats have held the Presidency for four terms but because of the Senate filibuster have only been able to freely legislate in two years the Republicans have been similarly disabled. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben's incessant drilling soon transformed Washington's recruits into a disciplined fighting force, and the revitalized army emerged from Valley Forge early the following year. Washington promoted Von Steuben to Major General and made him chief of staff. Washington D.C. Business Directory, A 2005 poll found that 78% of Americans did not know that residents of the District of Columbia have less representation in Congress than residents of the 50 states. Efforts to raise awareness about the issue have included campaigns by grassroots organizations and featuring the city's unofficial motto "Taxation Without Representation" on D.C vehicle license plates. There is evidence of nationwide approval for D.C voting rights; various polls indicate that 61 to 82% of Americans believe that D.C should have voting representation in Congress. However despite public support the solution to the problem is not simple, The Mexican government's policy of settlement of U.S citizens in its province of Tejas was aimed at expanding control into Comanche lands the Comancheria Instead of settlement occurring in the central and west of the province people settled in East Texas where there was rich farmland and which was contiguous to the southern U.S slave states as settlers poured in from the U.S. the Mexican government discouraged further settlement with its 1829 abolition of slavery. . 14.5 Memory and historiography Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense in January 1776 after the Revolution had started it was widely distributed and often read aloud in taverns contributing significantly to spreading the ideas of republicanism and liberalism together bolstering enthusiasm for separation from Great Britain and encouraging recruitment for the Continental Army. Paine offered a solution for Americans who were alarmed by the threat of tyranny, Partisanship versus bipartisanship The term Founding Fathers is sometimes used to refer to the Signers of the embossed version of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signers is not be confused with the term Framers; the Framers are defined by the National Archives as those 55 individuals who were appointed to be delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States Of the 55 Framers only 39 were signers of the Constitution. Two further groupings of Founding Fathers include: 1) those who signed the Continental Association a trade ban and one of the colonists' first collective volleys protesting British control and the Intolerable Acts in 1774, or 2) those who signed the Articles of Confederation the first U.S constitutional document.

In 1990 a United States Senate joint resolution to change Dulles's name to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Bob Dole but it didn't pass. Scholar and representative Lee H Hamilton asserted that the "historic mission of Congress has been to maintain freedom" and insisted it was a "driving force in American government" and a "remarkably resilient institution". Congress is the "heart and soul of our democracy" according to this view, even though legislators rarely achieve the prestige or name recognition of presidents or Supreme Court justices; one wrote that "legislators remain ghosts in America's historical imagination". One analyst argues that it is not a solely reactive institution but has played an active role in shaping government policy and is extraordinarily sensitive to public pressure. Several academics described Congress:. . . 9 See also The general solution that was adopted by the Compromise of 1850 was to transfer a considerable part of the territory claimed by Texas state to the federal government; to organize two new territories formally the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah which expressly would be allowed to locally determine whether they would become slave or free territories to add another free state to the Union (California) to adopt a severe measure to recover slaves who had escaped to a free state or free territory (the Fugitive Slave Law); and to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia a key provision of each of the laws respectively organizing the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah was that slavery would be decided by local option called popular sovereignty That was an important repudiation of the idea behind the failure to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico However the admission of California as a free state meant that southerners were giving up their goal of a coast-to-coast belt of slave states. Jefferson and Hamilton bitter rivals Governing bodies A few nation states have multiple capitals and there are also several states that have no capital Some have a city as the capital but with most government agencies elsewhere. John Trumbull After initial publication many Republicans including Madison criticized the Address and believed it was an anti-French campaign document Madison believed Washington was strongly pro-British Madison also was suspicious of who authored the Address, The size of a congressional pension depends on the years of service and the average of the highest three years of their salary by law the starting amount of a member's retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of their final salary in 2006 the average annual pension for retired senators and representatives under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) was $60,972 while those who retired under FERS or in combination with CSRS was $35,952. War News from Mexico (1848) Battle of Churubusco by J Cameron published by Nathaniel Currier Hand tinted lithograph 1847 Digitally restored, History[show] Crime in Washington D.C. is concentrated in areas associated with poverty drug abuse and gangs a 2010 study found that 5% of city blocks accounted for over one-quarter of the District's total crime.