Professor Brian C. Kalt of Michigan State University College of Law argues that the Vicinage Clause may permit the commission of the "perfect crime" in the portion of Yellowstone National Park within the state of Idaho because the entire park is within the District of Wyoming and the Idaho portion of the park has no residents (and that a less perfect crime could be committed in the lightly populated Montana portion of the park).
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Little is known about the Senate debate due to the illness of Senator Samuel Maclay whose journal is a key source for the proceedings of the Senate during the first Congress.
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Further, with the exception of the District of Wyoming, which includes the portions of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho and Montana (see below), no federal judicial district includes the territory of two or more states (although the short-lived District of Potomac once did).
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