Executive Analysis #220

Situated halfway between the original 13 States of the United States of America (so-stiled by the Articles of Confederation, the first lawful government thereof) - half-way between the populations, half way between the 13 State land areas, halfway in-land, far up a little albeit famous river emptying into a bay ... Washington DC, District of Columbia, was about as centroid as possible at the start of said first union. Subsequently the States revised and expanded their union of autonomous self-government, by a second confederation, without change of stile, under The Constitution (thereof).

A century later the little union had grown to many more States, spread across the continental longitude, maintaining about the same latitude-and-spread, and engaged in a war of secession, a geopolitical rift in the second confederacy - Northerners called it, the War of the Rebellion; Southerners, the War Between the States - we typically call it, the Civil War: fought over the issue of the (non)civility of slavery [the hire of strictlings for less than minimum wage, usually no currency-based wage at all; the importation of persons for such purposes having been banned decades prior]; But it remained summarily a war for centrality, between the mean old northern original capitol, and a second, nouveau southern-factioned, second-capitol, new-mean -(albeit triggered in the east, in a mutiny of a re-federated fort)- and dividing along and just below the Washington DC, latitude,- distributing statistically westward across its longitude;- and improving slightly eastward as a naval war; and fought mostly in the territory of the southern faction; mostly, just below Washington DC....

But, What, was a land-based country to do?- Had Washington DC instead kept pace with the rapid longitudinal expansion, of the whole of the United States, the perception of North Versus South would likely have never occurred with such narrow, formidal results as a war ... but, mobilizing Washington DC would have seemed cant, strange, and bizarre in the neo railroadic transitional era --even moving the District of Columbia, would have seemed a feint expenditure of money they could not afford, except in time of war,- and that for war-purposes only. Yet, the South's first act, of secession, proved Capitol-centrality the central issue and second-point of contention (*): Documentarily, and with some measure of implementation, they established their first capitol as Montgomery, Alabama, smack-middle of the Southern confederacy. However, the North chose to spend for war instead of moving DC, and within three and a half months the South capitulated a measure, moving its capitol de facto back to an equivalent longitude, Richmond, Virginia.

(*) Their first point of contention was the intent, demonstrated by the North, as discerned by the South, to do away with Interpretation -the jurisprudence of the Judiciary,- of the unwritten Constitutional meaning of, "other Persons"-- that having been categorically, sponsored Persons, not fully citizens;- and the trouble being that it was commonly usaged in popular civility, as selecting the previously imported "slave", and that perpetuated was deemably faulty;- but the Congressional North couldn't Amend the Constitution for an essence of fault and whence, war seemed the solution to improper Constitutionality on a major issue: as leading to renewed opportunity for Constitutionality, as that was how it had begun. The issue since has been attempted other ways: as in the era-prohibition of beveraging alcohol (for which asking filth defiles the man before it touches his tongue; believe, and deprive treachery of power). But the Union capitulates on this point;- Thus point-one was a non-point, issue; and point-two succeeded.

NOW,

The whole concept of a Capitol of a Union -of sovereign States at best- is quite the concern of politicians, war-mongers, multi-state monopoligarchist businessmen (and in other countries, the royalty and kingdom residents), not the general businessman though most look toward such a famous day (or to its opposing defense in jurisprudential cases). But the concept of centrality of law, is paramount and tantamount to commerce ever enlarging its clientele-base.

Commerce -doing daily business everywhere- is spread to wherever people live and officiate: And that has become, for United States national interests, balanced around, maybe Terre Haute on the Wabash River, Indiana - a recently exacted recourse by the federal judiciary proved its cartographic existence to be more than a stretch of grass between a National Guard airfield and a twinprop landing strip amid freeways and polygons of Dekalb corn rows.

We must with due national consideration and wisely therefor move Washington DC to where it can best assert centripedal powers (centrifugal, in republican-trickle-down lingo): Centripode among railroads, air-traffic controls, freeways, populations, States, lands; not far from rivers and not too far from the Great Lakes of north america;- no longer is middle America merely Maryland-landed country, New-England-for-old has become the forespiel of two centuries; and -who can tell for sure- Canada, originally invited without a ratification, maybe demurred on that very issue, the location of the Capitol, letting US-southerners work it out, to the middle.

THEN,

With Washington DC (District of Centripolity) resituated and residuated in the middle of the States United Again, we can go about business as usual: California will no longer boast as the wild-wild west, but as the west coast of the nation; commerce will continue as-is; New Englanders will feel, new - again.

Air travel will simplify with east and west being equalizedly close to the middle; Americans will have double the number of historic vacation sites; the 50m swimming pool and golf course across-the-border in Robinson Illinois, will get more use; some Senator's aide may find my golf ball lost in the thicket there; and the nation's capitolites will wake-up to a coal-steam-processing-plant horn. There's snow in the winter ... and America will be re-normalized.

When foreign dignitaries come visit The Big Corn Stalk In The Skies Over America, they'll fly far far in-land thousands of miles and fractions thereof to land their di-plomatic business. They will be impressed with the moderness of fenceless rural living instead of the quaint decrepitudes of washed old-gray red brick; And they will begin to think, what a nice place America must be: with no castles in the Capitol!

(On their second trips to the States, they can watch the inflite movies.)

But most importantly, there will be no more war between the north and the south: because the east and the west, and the north-east and the south-west, and the north-west and the south-east, will all have equilibrated stakes in the outcomes: Eight-way wars are neither easy to fight nor facile to supply, nor to resolve; there are no sides to take; and only one point: the unity and harmony of the nation! The adversaries are no longer simply people and States, but national geographics, too: revised to a tri-cameral Congress with a new House, called, The Grounds; and tripods and ground rules being stablizers, America will have attained what the decades gone-bye-bye USSR, that grand old imitator of our nation and constitution, failed to achieve: fully central government!

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Sincerely.
Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry
USA interParty

Firstly of the original 13 United States of America, self-stiled by our Articles of Confederation