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! The Parliament at Westminster saw itself as the supreme lawmaking authority throughout all British possessions and thus entitled to levy any tax without colonial approval. They argued that the colonies were legally British corporations that were completely subordinate to the British parliament and pointed to numerous instances where Parliament had made laws binding on the colonies in the past. They did not see anything in the unwritten British constitution that made taxes special and noted that they had taxed American trade for decades Parliament insisted that the colonies effectively enjoyed a "virtual representation" as most British people did as only a small minority of the British population elected representatives to Parliament. Americans such as James Otis maintained that the Americans were not in fact virtually represented. Main article: Conquest of California Main articles: George Washington and slavery and Abolitionism in the United States Percentage of slaves in each county of the slave states in 1860.

Washington D.C is overwhelmingly Democratic having voted for the Democratic candidate solidly since 1964 Each Republican candidate was voted down in favor of the Democratic candidate by a margin of at least 56 percentage points each time; the closest albeit very large margin between the two parties in a presidential election was in 1972 when Richard Nixon secured 21.6 percent of the vote to George McGovern's 78.1 percent Since then the Republican candidate has never received more than 20 percent of the vote. Portugal: the Portuguese constitution has no reference to a capital Although Lisbon is home to the parliament the presidency and the judiciary no Portuguese official document states that Lisbon is the national capital. . A separate British force captured Alexandria on the south side of the Potomac River while Ross's troops were leaving Washington the mayor of Alexandria made a deal and the British refrained from burning the town. The design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect rainwater a low-rise hotel and a row of office buildings along the north side of the main parking lot the design also included a two-level road in front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the Capital Beltway (I-495) about 17 miles (27 km) to the east (Eventually the highway system grew to include a parallel toll road to handle commuter traffic and an extension to connect to I-66) the access road had a wide median strip to allow the construction of a passenger rail line which will be in the form of an extension of the Washington Metro's Silver Line and is expected to be completed in 2020.