...have had their voice in the election of the government -which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived...their own suffrages will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it,...

...had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them, and as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them ; and as the authority of the legislature of the State and of the inhabitants of the ceded part thereof...

...their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; " and that "a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them." Our claim that the right of Congress to exercise exclusive legislation in this District does not include...

...voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them, and as amunicipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State and of the inhabitants of the ceded part thereof...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the state, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it,...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them ; . . . every imaginable objection seems to be obviated." The last four years of the existence of the...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived...their own suffrages will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it,...

...James Madison, who had helped to frame the Constitution, said of the people of the proposed district, " a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them." That is found in volume 43 of the Federalist. In 1802 Congress granted its first charter to the city...

...will have had i voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; . municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of ide be allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State and of the .abitants of the...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authorily over them, as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived...their own suffrages, will of course, be allowed them. From 1802 until 1870, nearly 70 years, we had citizenship and local self-government, under 20 mayors^....