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Constitutional responsibility for the oversight of Washington D.C. the federal district and national capital and the U.S territories of Guam American Samoa Puerto Rico the U.S Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands rests with Congress the republican form of government in territories is devolved by Congressional statute to the respective territories including direct election of governors the D.C mayor and locally elective territorial legislatures. . Eastern North America in 1775 the British Province of Quebec the thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast and the Indian reserve as defined by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 the 1763 Proclamation line is the border between the red and the pink areas while the orange area represents the Spanish claim!

Sociologist Barry Schwartz argues that in the 1930s and 1940s the memory of Abraham Lincoln was practically sacred and provided the nation with "a moral symbol inspiring and guiding American life" During the Great Depression he argues Lincoln served "as a means for seeing the world's disappointments for making its sufferings not so much explicable as meaningful" Franklin D Roosevelt preparing America for war used the words of the Civil War president to clarify the threat posed by Germany and Japan Americans asked "What would Lincoln do?":xi 9 24 However Schwartz also finds that since World War II Lincoln's symbolic power has lost relevance and this "fading hero is symptomatic of fading confidence in national greatness" He suggested that postmodernism and multiculturalism have diluted greatness as a concept.:xi 9, By 1815 the domestic slave trade had become a major economic activity in the United States; it lasted until the 1860s. Between 1830 and 1840 nearly 250,000 slaves were taken across state lines in the 1850s more than 193,000 were transported and historians estimate nearly one million in total took part in the forced migration of this new Middle Passage by 1860 the slave population in the United States had reached 4 million. Of all 1,515,605 free families in the fifteen slave states in 1860 nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four or 25%), amounting to 8% of all American families, One of Congress's foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch. Congressional oversight is usually delegated to committees and is facilitated by Congress's subpoena power. Some critics have charged that Congress has in some instances failed to do an adequate job of overseeing the other branches of government in the Plame affair critics including Representative Henry A Waxman charged that Congress was not doing an adequate job of oversight in this case. There have been concerns about congressional oversight of executive actions such as warrantless wiretapping although others respond that Congress did investigate the legality of presidential decisions. Political scientists Ornstein and Mann suggested that oversight functions do not help members of Congress win reelection Congress also has the exclusive power of removal allowing impeachment and removal of the president federal judges and other federal officers. There have been charges that presidents acting under the doctrine of the unitary executive have assumed important legislative and budgetary powers that should belong to Congress. So-called signing statements are one way in which a president can "tip the balance of power between Congress and the White House a little more in favor of the executive branch" according to one account. Past presidents including Ronald Reagan George H W Bush Bill Clinton and George W Bush have made public statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understand a bill or plan to execute it and commentators including the American Bar Association have described this practice as against the spirit of the Constitution. There have been concerns that presidential authority to cope with financial crises is eclipsing the power of Congress in 2008 George F Will called the Capitol building a "tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters"! Franklin T Lambert (2003) has examined the religious affiliations and beliefs of some of the Founders Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention 28 were Anglicans (i.e Church of England; or Episcopalian after the American Revolutionary War was won) 21 were other Protestants and two were Roman Catholics (D Carroll and Fitzsimons). Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention eight were Presbyterians seven were Congregationalists two were Lutherans two were Dutch Reformed and two were Methodists, Washington D.C. Business Directory, The Arizona Organic Act abolished slavery on February 24 1863 in the newly formed Arizona Territory Tennessee and all of the border states (except Kentucky) abolished slavery by early 1865 Thousands of slaves were freed by the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation as Union armies marched across the South Emancipation came to the remaining southern slaves after the surrender of all Confederate troops in spring 1865.