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On June 26 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States held in District of Columbia v Heller that the city's 1976 handgun ban violated the right to keep and bear arms as protected under the Second Amendment. However the ruling does not prohibit all forms of gun control; laws requiring firearm registration remain in place as does the city's assault weapon ban; When Jefferson ran into Hamilton at President Washington's residence in New York City in late June 1790 Jefferson offered to host a dinner to bring Madison and Hamilton together Subsequently a compromise was reached in which the northern delegates would agree to the southerly Potomac River site and in return the federal government would assume debts accumulated by the states during the American Revolutionary War Jefferson wrote a letter to James Monroe explaining the compromise, Tributaries of the North Branch of the Potomac River, Slaves were generally prohibited by law from associating in groups with the exception of worship services (a reason why the Black church is such a notable institution in black communities today) Following Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 which raised white fears throughout the South some states also prohibited or restricted religious gatherings of slaves or required that they be officiated by white men Planters feared that group meetings would facilitate communication among slaves that could lead to rebellion. Slaves held private secret "brush meetings" in the woods. . The regulars regarded the volunteers with importance and contempt . [The volunteers] robbed Mexicans of their cattle and corn stole their fences for firewood got drunk and killed several inoffensive inhabitants of the town in the streets. . Salamanders of the Potomac River Basin Washington soon was counted among the political and social elite in Virginia From 1768 to 1775 he invited some 2,000 guests to his Mount Vernon estate mostly those whom he considered "people of rank" He became more politically active in 1769 presenting legislation in the Virginia Assembly to establish an embargo on goods from Great Britain. Washington D.C during the later stages of the War Congress also plays a role in presidential elections Both Houses meet in joint session on the sixth day of January following a presidential election to count the electoral votes and there are procedures to follow if no candidate wins a majority. .

. . In 2012 Washington's annual murder count had dropped to 88 the lowest total since 1961 the murder rate has since risen from that historic low though it remains close to half the rate of the early 2000s. Washington was once described as the "murder capital" of the United States during the early 1990s the number of murders peaked in 1991 at 479 but the level of violence then began to decline significantly; The selection of a location for the capital resurfaced in the summer of 1790 At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass a financial plan a key provision of Hamilton's plan involved the Federal government assuming states' debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War Northern states had accumulated a huge amount of debt during the war amounting to 21.5 million dollars and wanted the federal government to assume their burden the Southern states whose citizens would effectively be forced to pay a portion of this debt if the Federal Government assumed it balked at this proposal Some states including Virginia had paid almost half of their debts and felt that their taxpayers should not be assessed again to bail out the less provident Further they argued that the plan exceeded the scope of the new Constitutional government James Madison then a representative from Virginia led a group of legislators from the south in blocking the provision and preventing the plan from gaining approval, 3.2 United States Army map of the District 1835!