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3 unusual facts about District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871


District of Columbia home rule

In order to build new infrastructure and make the city's government operate more efficiently, Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which created a new government for the entire federal territory.

District of Columbia Organic Act

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, an act by the United States Congress, which created a single municipal government for the entire District of Columbia

Stella Tremblay

In 2013 Tremblay co-sponsored legislation maintaining that the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 unlawfully abrogated the United States Constitution by removing the original Thirteenth Amendment, so that the document has since then been a fraudulent constitution, and seeking to correct this.



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