[Discuss] Moving capital

[Eric]

James Spadaccini wrote:
> Marc J. wrote:
>> On 6/8/06, *James Spadaccini* wrote:
>>
>>     The US moved their capital from Philadelphia to Washington DC.
>>
>>
>> ...to try and unite North and South.
>>
>> -- 
>> Marc J.
> Sounds like a strategy to me.
>
>
Not at all... it was geopolitical coupled a crossed social borders.  If 
you can manage strategic sociological change by moving a capital than 
maybe it is... but not in the sense you are speaking of.

However the United States as we know them has only had one Capitol.  It 
is actually written into the Constitution of the United States.  In 1787 
when the constitution of the United States of America was ratified only 
then was the new nation given a actual capitol city.  It was not 
actually until the Bill of Rights was the nation complete and the first 
inklings of a real government start.  It was 1790 when Washington DC 
became the center for all USA Federal Government.

Philadelphia was not the Capitol of the the US but the home of the 
Second Constitutional Congress under the Articles of Confederation and 
Perpetual Union.  If you were to say that the US was a nation with a 
permanent Capitol prior to 1789 (that would be of course from 1777 when 
you first see any assemblence of government in Philadelphia, then you 
are saying that there are extra Presidents before George Washington.



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