Reorganization and Home Rule for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Home Rule and Reorganization of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on the Propositions of Reorganization of the Government of the District of Columbia and Home Rule for the District of Columbia. June 30 to July 25, 1947, Parts 63-64

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 621 pages
 

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Page 2 - ... will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them...
Page 343 - Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the House of Representatives.
Page 209 - States for the proper district ; and when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them...
Page 182 - The judgment of the court shall be subject to review by the appropriate United States court of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States, as provided in sections 1291 and 1254 of title 28 of the United States Code.
Page 561 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings...
Page 217 - Annual Report of the Business of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia for the Fiscal Year, July 1.
Page 497 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past...
Page 136 - Act, other than subsection (h) of section 1, shall apply in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Page 210 - States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said district court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State court...
Page 218 - The solution and the only solution of the difficulty is, that the power vested in congress, as the legislature of the United States, to legislate exclusively within any place ceded by a State, carries with it, as an incident, the right to make that power effectual.

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