Home Rule and Reorganization for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Home Rule and Reorganization of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, to Provide for Home Rule and Reorganization in the District of Columbia, February 20, 21, 22, March 1, 5, 1951United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Home Rule and Reorganization U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 277 páginas |
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Página 23 - That the said commission is hereby charged with the duty of preparing, developing, and maintaining a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs...
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Página 43 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever " over the District of Columbia, thus possessing the combined powers of a general and of a State government in all cases where legislation is possible But as the repository of the legislative power of the United States, Congress in creating the District of Columbia " a body corporate for municipal purposes " could only authorize it to exercise municipal powers, and this is all that Congress attempted to do.