Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of
Beijings role that t. V. Is a pal and has more from hong kongs. Chief executive had said that she had already sought or approached beijing to make a decision on these 4. After they were disbarred from Legislative Council elections earlier this year in september those elections were postponed, but the 4 remained sitting lawmakers. And so a decision needed to be made. Whether they were allowed to sit in hong kongs Legislative Council until the next set of full actions. Now the n. P. C. A standing committee, the highest position, big making body in china, has decided that they are not allowed and told some paragons government to completely buy cat past the legal system. When it comes to this parring, lawmakers from hong kong, the military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the countrys borders, and there are fears it could lead to a humanitarian crisis. Several 1000 people have fled the region since Prime Minister ahmed ordered the offensive last week. U. S. Presi
Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
The u. S. Greece and italy, their embassies have put out a statement condemning what they call a cowardly attack. Now they are some of the countries that were represented during this Remembrance Day ceremony that took place in jeddah at this cemetery for non muslims. It is armistice day. It is the day that marks the end of world war one. What happened was an explosive device went off during that ceremony. We understand that several people were wounded. We dont have any more details, though, about how gravely they were wounded or their identities. And the headlines more than a dozen legislators in hong kong of resigned in solidarity after the government disqualified because chinas passed a patriotism resolution, allowing the removal of politicians to challenge its rule. Protesters in armenias capital of voicing their anger about a deal to end the fighting with their opposed to the agreement, which sees land handed over to syrian forces. The military operation in northern ethiopia is thr