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Interactive map showing border of Washington D.C (click to zoom). Further information: Presidency of Zachary Taylor, Ideas for legislation can come from members lobbyists state legislatures constituents legislative counsel or executive agencies Anyone can write a bill but only members of Congress may introduce bills Most bills are not written by Congress members but originate from the Executive branch; interest groups often draft bills as well the usual next step is for the proposal to be passed to a committee for review a proposal is usually in one of these forms:, Ideas for legislation can come from members lobbyists state legislatures constituents legislative counsel or executive agencies Anyone can write a bill but only members of Congress may introduce bills Most bills are not written by Congress members but originate from the Executive branch; interest groups often draft bills as well the usual next step is for the proposal to be passed to a committee for review a proposal is usually in one of these forms:. Across the South white legislatures enacted harsh new laws to curtail the already limited rights of African Americans Virginia prohibited blacks free or slave from practicing preaching prohibited blacks from owning firearms and forbade anyone to teach slaves or free blacks how to read it specified heavy penalties for both student and teacher if slaves were educated including whippings or jail, Black or African American 50.7% 65.8% 71.1% 28.2% The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958; the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration As a result of the site selection the unincorporated largely African-American community of Willard which once stood in the airport's current footprint was demolished and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned. The law was so rigorously pro-slavery as to prohibit the admission of the testimony of a person accused of being an escaped slave into evidence at the judicial hearing to determine the status of the accused escaped slave Thus if a freedman were claimed to be an escaped slave they could not resist their return to slavery by truthfully telling their own actual history, In 1830 a disgruntled ex-employee of the estate attempted to steal what he thought was Washington's skull prompting the construction of a more secure vault the next year the new vault was constructed at Mount Vernon to receive the remains of George and Martha and other relatives in 1832 a joint Congressional committee debated moving his body from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the Capitol the crypt had been built by architect Charles Bulfinch in the 1820s during the reconstruction of the burned-out capital after the Burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812 Southern opposition was intense antagonized by an ever-growing rift between North and South; many were concerned that Washington's remains could end up on "a shore foreign to his native soil" if the country became divided and Washington's remains stayed in Mount Vernon!

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