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To: greenspirit who wrote (1967)	9/12/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 6418

I think it is because of the federal system. The federal government isn't part of any State, and therefore it was thought that the federal district should not be part of any State. Doesn't Australia also have a separate federal district?

To: greenspirit who wrote (1967)	9/12/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 6418

An interesting note: The United States is the only modern country on earth where the nations capital is set apart from the country. Anyone care to speculate why? So the rest of the states can abdicate from D.C. when they decide they've had enough? To make clear that Washington D.C. is NOT part of the United States of America, which is NOT called the United States of America Plus a Federal District?

To: greenspirit who wrote (1967)	9/12/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Constant Reader	Respond to of 6418

Michael, many nations have established their capital as a special district similar to D.C. Mexico, Australia, China, and Taiwan come immediately to mind.

To: greenspirit who wrote (1967)	9/12/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

I don't have time to check this story out, but I remember it as it was told to me, many years ago, in school. It went this way: Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City (and perhaps some other cities as well) were all squabbling over which one of them would get to be the country's capital. Making Philadelphia the capital would give Pennsylvania too much power in the new Union; Boston -- Massachusetts, and so on down the line. So the Wise Men got together and said, "Let's build a new capital, on no man's land, so that no one state will be elevated above another." So Virginia and Maryland both (for a sum) donated a piece of land towards the new capital -- and this is how the Federal District was born! Ta-Da! Makes a good story, anyway...