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. Formal portrait of Chief Justice John Jay wearing judge's robe, Contents The District is not a state and therefore has no voting representation in Congress D.C residents elect a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives currently Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C At-Large) who may sit on committees participate in debate and introduce legislation but cannot vote on the House floor the District has no official representation in the United States Senate Neither chamber seats the District's elected "shadow" representative or senators Unlike residents of U.S territories such as Puerto Rico or Guam which also have non-voting delegates D.C residents are subject to all federal taxes in the financial year 2012 D.C residents and businesses paid $20.7 billion in federal taxes; more than the taxes collected from 19 states and the highest federal taxes per capita.

Nevertheless the Supreme Court has treated campaign contributions as a free speech issue. Some see money as a good influence in politics since it "enables candidates to communicate with voters". Few members retire from Congress without complaining about how much it costs to campaign for reelection. Critics contend that members of Congress are more likely to attend to the needs of heavy campaign contributors than to ordinary citizens, The U.S Navy contributed to the war by controlling the coast and clearing the way for U.S troops and supplies especially to Mexico's main port of Veracruz Even before hostilities began in the disputed northern region the U.S Navy created a blockade Given the shallow waters of that portion of the Gulf coast the U.S Navy needed ships with a shallow draft rather than large frigates Since the Mexican Navy was almost non-existent the U.S Navy could operate unimpeded in Gulf waters, Enslaved African Americans had not waited for Lincoln before escaping and seeking freedom behind Union lines From early years of the war hundreds of thousands of African Americans escaped to Union lines especially in Union-controlled areas such as Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region in 1862 Virginia Tennessee from 1862 on the line of Sherman's march etc So many African Americans fled to Union lines that commanders created camps and schools for them where both adults and children learned to read and write the American Missionary Association entered the war effort by sending teachers south to such contraband camps for instance establishing schools in Norfolk and on nearby plantations! ; The historians John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger wrote:, California: the executive and legislative branches and most government agencies are based in Sacramento but the California Supreme Court is headquartered in San Francisco! In mid-1779 Washington attacked Iroquois warriors of the Six Nations in order to force Britain's Indian allies out of New York from which they had assaulted New England towns the Indian warriors joined with Tory rangers led by Walter Butler and viciously slew more than 200 frontiersmen in June laying waste to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania in response Washington ordered General John Sullivan to lead an expedition to effect "the total destruction and devastation" of Iroquois villages and take their women and children hostage Those who managed to escape fled to Canada, Thomas McKean Delaware 3 Yes Yes Yes 4.1 Settlement of borders. Painting showing Washington on horseback accepting the surrender of Hessian troops after the Battle at Trenton N.J.