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An act to provide a Government for the
District of Columbia.
CHAPTER 62,
1871
16 United States Statutes at Large 419
FORTY FIRST CONGRESS SESSION III.
CHAPTER 62,
1871
CHAP. LXII. --
The government of the District
(the Federal Government) is a corporation,
municipal in nature but still a corporation.
Furthermore, District citizens
(United States citizens - U. S. citizens)
will now be subject to corporation law as
well as law of the Republic.
Corporate law is private law even though
the corporation is municipal.
Generally we are led to believe that these
corporate laws are laws of the people because
they have come from Congress... they are not,
they are private laws and can only be applied
by contract.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States in Congress
assembled, That all that part of the territory of the
United States included within the limits of the
District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby,
created into a government by the name of the
District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby
constituted a body corporate for municipal
purposes, and may contract and be contracted
with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
have a seal, and exercise all other powers of a
municipal corporation not inconsistent with the
Constitution and laws of the United States and
the provisions of this act.
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LIMITS OF CONGRESSIONAL POWERS
Police power is a power originally and always
belonging to the states, not surrendered to them
by the general government, nor directly
restrained by the constitution of the United States,
and essentially exclusive.
It may be considered as having been
authoritatively settled that the national
government cannot exercise police powers for
the protection of the inhabitants of a state.
The police power under the American
constitutional system has been left to the
states.
It has always belonged to them and was not
surrendered by them to the general government,
nor directly restrained by the constitution of the
United States... Congress has no general power
to enact police regulations operative within the
territorial limits of a state.
The Federal Government has no general police
power and that of the states is beyond the reach
of Congress, except in rare cases where the
people in whom it inheres have released it by the
terms of the Federal Constitution.
The 14th Amendment does not empower
Congress to legislate on matters within the
domain of the states' powers, nor to legislate
against the wrongs and personal actions of
individuals within the state nor to regulate and
control the conduct of private individuals,
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