Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The Capitol
Jefferson used the name because in Latin in meant “city on a hill” which had great meaning for the original colonial settlers. Remember that in the original plan for Washington DC, the Capitol was the center of the city in the sense that it is where the 4 quadrants in which the city was divided, meet.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Name given to the Building that had been erected for Congress
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His main reason for believing this is that all appropriations bills must be initiated by the House of Representatives. Lobbyists therefore often give the House more attention than the Senate.
In 1814 the British burned Washington including the capitol building. President Madison arranged for the senate to meet in Blodgett's Hotel, on Eighth and E Streets, Northwest. Some of the senators felt that the setting was inappropriate for the conduct of senatorial business. Fromentin disagreed.
The Chairmen of the Committees then had tremendous, almost unilateral power. The chairman reached seniority by being elected over and over and had little opposition. At the time they were almost all older Democratic Congressmen from the "Solid South", very conservative and still racists despite the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They were outraged when a Freshmen member of Congress who rarely made a public statement, took on the most powerful members of the House and wanted to reform the Seniority. But Ms. Chisholm was a teacher in her professional life, and by challenging the seniority system and attracting the enmity of most of the Chairmen, the media and the public started to cover the dispute and Chisholm explained to America exactly how the system worked and how undemocratic and racist it was. Her effort put the Seniority System on the public agenda, and reforms evolved over the next decades." She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
One of the grandest compromises of the new nation of America was the placement of the National Capitol in what is now Washington DC. Virginia and Maryland seemed to be the big winners so far as access was concerned.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
