Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--
| 1. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:255, 1765 |
| 2. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 3. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 43, 288--90, 23 Jan. 1788 |
| 4. | Debate in Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 24 Jan. 1788 |
| 5. | Federal Farmer, no. 18, 25 Jan. 1788 |
| 6. | Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 6, 16 June 1788 |
| 7. | Thomas Tredwell, New York Ratifying Convention, 2 July 1788 |
| 8. | Debate in North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 30 July 1788 |
| 9. | Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 22 Aug. 1789 |
| 10. | James Madison, Location of Capital, House of Representatives, 4, 21 Sept. 1789 |
| 11. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 276--78, 1803 |
| 12. | Hepburn v. Ellzey |
| 13. | United States v. More |
| 14. | Commonwealth v. Clary |
| 15. | Custis v. Lane |
| 16. | United States v. Cornell |
| 17. | People v. Godfrey |
| 18. | Loughborough v. Blake |
| 19. | Cohens v. Virginia |
| 20. | William Wirt, Right to Tax Government Property, 8 Sept. 1823 |
| 21. | American Insurance Co. v. Canter |
| 22. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1212--22, 1833 |
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