DC:  Despotic Constitutionalism

"When ... man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government---that is despotism."

A. Lincoln, 1854

"Congress shall have the power ... To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such District as shall become the seat of Government..."

Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, U. S. Constitution