Would there have been anyway, during the earlier days of the United States, to have the capital rotate to a different city every 10 years (or something like that), with the reasoning behind it being this republican ideal of A) not letting any one state be able to claim "we are the seat of power" and B) to allow different population areas to be close to the seat of power for a time.
Eventually, this practice would probably stop, BUT.....where would the capital end up? possibly someplace more central, NOT on the East Coast? Obviously this would all depend on WHEN the practice ends.
And how would this effect people's relationship to the federal government, if the capital were more centrally located, so people on the West coast didn't feel quite so far away from the center of power?