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Federal district   /fˈɛdərəl dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Federal district

noun
1.
A district set apart as the seat of government of a federation.





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"Federal district" Quotes from Famous Books



... were little used, however, except by the underlings, the capadores, or by capsized picadores; espadas and banderilleros disdained them. On the west of the ring was the box of the Presidente of the corrida (in this instance, the Governor of the Federal District); on the east the main gate of the ring through which the cuadrilla entered; on the north the gate of the ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson
... Reynolds and Broughton were indicted by the Federal government, but the Federal district court for southern Alabama held that peonage had ...
— The Ultimate Criminal - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 • Archibald H. Grimke
... writer ventured to inquire, "what will become of the Federal District, since its inhabitants have no 'State right ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various
... of an act of Congress approved July 16, 1790. In May, 1800, the archives and general offices of the Federal Government were removed to this place. On the 17th of November, 1800, the National Congress met here for the first time and assumed exclusive control of the Federal district and city. This interesting event assumes all the more significance when we recall the circumstances attending the choosing of the site, the naming of the capital in honor of the Father of his Country, and the interest taken by him ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • William McKinley
... concern and invited friendly action looking to the performance of the engagements of the two nations concerning the territory embraced in the interoceanic transit. With the subsidence of the Isthmian disturbances and the erection of the State of Panama into a federal district under the direct government of the constitutional administration at Bogota, a new order of things has been inaugurated, which, although as yet somewhat experimental and affording scope for arbitrary-exercise ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland


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