James Monroe said...

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of ...

The Secretary of State, one of the ministers referred to, has already expressed a desire that Mr. Russell's letter shoul...

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone ...

This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.