| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - A: Article 1.8.17 of the Constitution gives the federal government authority to own a 10 square mile section of land, presently Washington, D.C., and ???over all places purchased by consent of the State legislature??? for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings???.??? According to the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, when new territories were granted statehood,
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