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  2. District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 - Wikipedia

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    The Act is the basis of several claims held by the sovereign citizen movement. According to these, the Act made the District, and consequently the whole United States, into a business corporation. [12] These claims stem from a misunderstanding of the term municipal corporation used in the Act.

  3. Treaty of Washington (1871) - Wikipedia

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    Treaty of Washington; Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Amicable Settlement of all Causes of Difference Between the Two Countries ("Alabama" Claims; Fisheries; Claims of Corporations, Companies or Private Individuals; Navigation of Rivers and Lakes; San Juan Water Boundary; and Rules Defining Duties of a Neutral Government during War).

  4. District of Columbia (until 1871) - Wikipedia

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    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new municipal corporation [13] governing the entire federal territory, called the District of Columbia, thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the district (Port of Georgetown, the City of Washington, and Washington County) and their governments.

  5. Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

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    The claim that the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 turned the United States into a business corporation is based on a misunderstanding of the term municipal corporation used in the Act (which referred to the District of Columbia and not to the entire country) [168] [169] and on a misinterpretation of a provision in Title 28 of the ...

  6. United States corporate law - Wikipedia

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    New York Business Corporation Law section 1104-a, the holders of 20 per cent of voting shares of a non-public corporation may request that the corporation be wound up on grounds of oppression. NY Bus Corp Law §1118 and Alaska Plastics, Inc. v. Coppock , 621 P.2d 270 (1980) the minority can sue to be bought out at a fair value, determined by ...

  7. History of corporate law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 18th century, there were about 300 incorporated companies in the United States, most of them providing public services, and only eight manufacturing companies. [1] The formation of a corporation usually required an act of legislature.

  8. 1871 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills as many as 2,500 people, making it the deadliest fire in United States history. October 24 – Chinese massacre of 1871 18 Chinese immigrants in Chinatown, Los Angeles, are killed by a mob of 500 men.

  9. Organic act - Wikipedia

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    Northwest Territory of the United States, 1787 This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white).. In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes an administrative agency or local government, [1] for example, the laws that established territory of the United States and specified how ...