Time: Thu Feb 06 17:03:25 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08808; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:33:32 -0700 (MST) id OAA13705; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:18:25 -0500 (EST) id OAA13697; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:18:23 -0500 (EST) id AA27989; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:18:21 -0500 by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA11424; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:18:19 -0700 (MST) by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA09082; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:18:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:26:27 -0800 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SNET: SLS: 1040s and IRS -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List Dear Friends: I offer the following clarification: 1:8:17 goes to enclaves, of which D.C. was the first, and most famous, example. ("1:8:17" is shorthand for Article I, Section 8, Clause 17.) 4:3:2 goes to territories and possessions, which are acquired by conquest or treaty, not by cession from any particular state of the Union. (Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2) Together, 1:8:17 and 4:3:2 define the federal zone; 1:8:17 does not sufficiently define it, all by itself. Therefore, exclusive federal jurisdiction extends to all territory defined by 1:8:17 and 4:3:2. I hope this helps. /s/ Paul Mitchell p.s. Article IV is one of the least studied, and least understood, provisions in the U.S. Constitution, and yet it is the basis for all federal district courts at the present time, with very few exceptions (e.g. U.s. Court of International Trade, which is Article III by definition). At 11:55 AM 2/7/97 -0500, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > > > >Walte writes: > That little phase about not exceeding >"ten miles square" is within parentheses, meaning >there's no limit to how big the U.S. can grow. > > so,,,, then this means > >The District of Columbia was intended >> to be ten miles square > > without parenthenses, your interpretation of ten miles square covers >unlimited >territory? Kindly explain how you come to that conclusion? Remember you're >saying that the ten miles square on each side,, the part in parentheses is >superfluous. Not the ten miles square of the District of Columbia. > > emmilene > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: Emmilene@aol.com > > ==================================================================== [Text is usually formatted in Courier 11 non-proportional spacing @] [65-characters per line; .DOCs by MS-WORD for MS-DOS, Version 5.0B.] Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S., email address: pmitch@primenet.com Web site for the Supreme Law Firm is URL: http://www.supremelaw.com Ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state [We win] We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding. Coming soon: "Manifesto for a Republic" by John E. Trumane ie JetMan ==================================================================== -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com -> Posted by: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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