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To: PapaBear3625

So. Has a state ever actually gone into receivership. The District of Columbia, during the latter phase of the reign of Barry and into the mayoralty of Tony Williams was under a Congressional-appointed Control Board but that’s a special case.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 7:29:18 PM PST by sinanju
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To: sinanju

DC is a Constitutionally special case, in that the Constitution puts control of DC into the hands of Congress. Congress chose to allow locally-elected officials to run it, but that authority, coming from Congress, is subject to revocation at any time with Congress appointing any new government it chooses.


17 posted on 12/23/2008 6:34:31 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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