From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>>Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>>>>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>>>>Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>bryan_styble  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>>* Yes, I'm aware that a good while back The CBS Evening News   
   >>>>>>>>>relocated to the District of Columbia its flagship studio.   
   >>>>>>>>>That was indeed an easy but still bold network decision which now   
   >>>>>>>>>distinguishes that polished CBS production from the less-burnished   
   >>>>>>>>>Muir- and Holt-helmed newscasts O'Donnell is head-to-head against.   
   >>>>>>>>>And it was a shift I applauded when it happened because, why   
   >>>>>>>>>SHOULDN'T a national newscast be situated in the national capital?   
   >>>>>>>>>But O'Donnell's bosses' offices DO remain high up there on some   
   >>>>>>>>>double-digit floor of Black Rock.   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>I am always resentful when the national headquarters of anything   
   >>>>>>>>decamps from the country's original capital to that jury-rigged   
   >>>>>>>>Johnny-come-lately fractional-size city on the Potomac.   
   >   
   >>>>>>>You refuse to recognize Philadelphia? bonk   
   >   
   >>>>>>I am not aware of any particular trend of national organizations   
   >>>>>>moving their headquarters from New York to Philadelphia,even if it   
   >>>>>>sometimes happens,and it is less objectionable to me than relocations   
   >>>>>>to Washington.   
   >   
   >>>>>I'm pointing out that while the seat of national government was in a   
   >>>>>number of places temporarily before Washington DC was established,   
   >>>>>including New York, the Continental Congress sat at Philadelphia when   
   >>>>>the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776 and when the Articles of   
   >>>>>Confederation were debated.   
   >   
   >>>>>New York was not the country's original capital.   
   >   
   >>>>It was the first CONSTITUTIONAL capital.   
   >   
   >>>>Where the first president of the USA (of the constitutional   
   >>>>and not congressional variety) was inaugurated.   
   >   
   >>>The constitution of 1789 was our nation's SECOND constitution.   
   >   
   >>>Now you're not recognizing the Articles of Confederation as our nation's   
   >>>first constitution?   
   >   
   >>Do the articles declare themselves to be a Constitution?   
   >   
   > You don't get to declare the organic document not a constitution.   
      
   Organic documents can be of varying degrees of effect and solemnity.   
      
   If a more perfect union is desired a different type of document   
   may be called for than an initially attempted option.   
      
   >>And they provided for a president who was presiding officer of   
   >>the Congress,not an executive.   
   >   
   > What does that matter? A nation's capital is where its legislature sits.   
   > There are nations in which the head of state may have a palace   
   > elsewhere, although head of government invariably sits in the capital   
   > city or adjacent to it.   
      
   If there isn't an executive,there is a functional significance.   
      
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