District of Columbia

District of Columbia
The seat of government of the United States, having an area of 69 square miles, situated on the Potomac River, on the border of Maryland opposite Virginia, and subject to the power of Congress to exercise exclusive legislation in reference thereto. 49 Am J1st States § 122. It occupies a unique position, being neither state nor organized territory in the usual sense of such terms. Hepburn v Ellzey (US) 2 Cranch 445, 2 L Ed 332. But it is a state as the word is used in reference to the making of treaties with foreign powers. Geofroy v Riggs, 133 US 258, 33 L Ed 642, 10 S Ct 295.

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