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3.2 Checks and balances Washington was descended from Anglican minister Lawrence Washington (his great-great-grandfather) whose troubles with the Church of England may have prompted his heirs to emigrate to America. Washington was baptized as an infant in April 1732 and became a devoted member of the Church of England (the Anglican Church). He served more than 20 years as a vestryman and churchwarden for Fairfax Parish and Truro Parish Virginia. He privately prayed and read the Bible daily and he publicly encouraged people and the nation to pray. He may have taken communion on a regular basis prior to the Revolutionary War but he did not do so following the war for which he was admonished by Pastor James Abercrombie. . . Library of Congress George Fitzhugh used assumptions about white superiority to justify slavery writing that "the Negro is but a grown up child and must be governed as a child." in the Universal Law of Slavery Fitzhugh argues that slavery provides everything necessary for life and that the slave is unable to survive in a free world because he is lazy and cannot compete with the intelligent European white race He states that "The negro slaves of the South are the happiest and in some sense the freest people in the world." Without the South "He (slave) would become an insufferable burden to society" and "Society has the right to prevent this and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery.". Climate data for Washington, 3 Retrocession (1847) The freedmen fought for Britain throughout the Atlantic campaign including the attack on Washington D.C and the Louisiana Campaign Seven hundred of these ex-marines were granted land (they reportedly organised themselves in villages along the lines of their military companies).[citation needed] Many other freed American slaves were recruited directly into existing West Indian regiments or newly created British Army units[citation needed] the British later resettled a few thousand freed slaves at Nova Scotia as they had for freedmen after the Revolution. Some of the earlier freedmen had migrated to Sierra Leone in the late 18th century when it was established as a British colony Descendants have established the Black Loyalist Heritage Museum and website, 3.2 Cargo Opponents of D.C voting rights propose that the Founding Fathers never intended for District residents to have a vote in Congress since the Constitution makes clear that representation must come from the states Those opposed to making D.C a state claim that such a move would destroy the notion of a separate national capital and that statehood would unfairly grant Senate representation to a single city particularly one certain to elect Democratic representatives. 11 Historical reputation and legacy 4 Provisions Confederate troops crossing the fords of the Potomac in early September 1862 for the invasion of Maryland which would culminate in the Battle of Antietam (Print of a wood carving based on a drawing by Thomas Nast; first published in the September 27 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly.).

! President James Madison military officials and his government fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States Capital for a Day" President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville. 2.2.1 Doctors of Medicine Washington D.C is located in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S East Coast Due to the District of Columbia retrocession the city has a total area of 68.34 square miles (177.0 km2) of which 61.05 square miles (158.1 km2) is land and 7.29 square miles (18.9 km2) (10.67%) is water the District is bordered by Montgomery County Maryland to the northwest; Prince George's County Maryland to the east; Arlington County Virginia to the south; and Alexandria Virginia to the west, The newly restructured District government provided for a governor appointed by the President for a 4-year term with an 11-member council also appointed by the President a locally elected 22-member assembly and a five-man Board of Public Works charged with modernizing the city the first vice-chair of that Board of Public Works was real-estate developer Alexander Robey Shepherd the architect and proponent of the consolidating legislation From September 1873 to June 1874 Shepherd would serve as the second and final governor of the District; . ; The House Financial Services committee meets Committee members sit in the tiers of raised chairs while those testifying and audience members sit below, The North Branch between Cumberland Maryland and Ridgeley West Virginia in 2007. . !