UNITED STATES = Washington D.C. doing business as the United States incorporated Feb. 01, 1871 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016%2Fllsl016.db&recNum=454 Note the Constitution created a government in 1787. This Organic Act of 1871 created a government for the District of Columbia and incorporated it as The United States Corporation. This corporation was given all the powers not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States, which means consistent or double talk. Washington D.C. was already our nations capital since the Organic Act of 1801. memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=140 Note that many misinformed folks seem to be under the impression that the Organic act created a local or CITY government for Washington but that is not the case because as you can see 10 months prior to the organic act of Feb. 21, 1871 there already was a local or city government incorporated and in place memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016/llsl016.db&recNum=117
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