I understand that the act abolished the cities of Washington and Georgetown and made a consolidated government for the entire District of Columbia, but how exactly does this affect the rest of the United States, let alone turn it into a business corporation?
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The only evidence Lisa Guliani provides is: US CODE: Title 28,3002. Definitions (15) “United States” means — (A) a Federal corporation; (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C) an instrumentality of the United States.
(A) does not mean that the United States is a corporation. Federal corporations are things like Amtrak or the post office. This definition is just saying that what the statute that follows says about the United States applies to these corporations, and also to federal agencies and other United States "entities" or "instrumentalities." So if the statute says something about suing the United States, it says that about suing Amtrak, too. Just an example; I don't know what the rest of this statute says.
OK, she also says the real title of the Constitution is "the Constitution FOR the united states [lower case] of America." Where to begin? The original handwritten Constitution has no title, but just starts off with "We the People." In that Preamble, the phrase "Constitution for the United States of America" appears (that's what we the people say we are establishing), but "United States" is capitalized. It is not fully capitalized, however, in the Declaration of Independence, which begins: "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America." Maybe that's where she got this idea. And the Constitution has been called "the Constitution OF the United States" in Supreme Court opinions going back to the 1790s. It's what it's always been called.
As for the "articles of incorporation," they are just that, the articles of incorporation for an oddly-named Florida corporation set up by three New Yorkers in 1925 to do various kinds of business. Nothing to do with the government or the United States, even though it's called "United States Corporation Company."
Can someone explain how the Organic Act of 1871, in which Congress relieved itself of the burden of governing DC directly and gave it home rule, makes the United States a corporation? Because DC is the capital and I guess a corporation? But the city of DC doesn't rule the country. Actually, it's the reverse: Congress (representing the country) can still veto any law the DC Council passes. And DC only makes local laws governing the residents living there. It doesn't make laws for the country. CAPITALS don't govern countries. Governments do. A capital is just the location for the government.
Is anyone really confused about this?
There are many, many things that are not widely known and very interesting--vital, actually--to uncover and talk about. This isn't one of them, IMO. Looks like a distraction to me.