Introduction President Washington’s second oath of office was taken in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, the date fixed by the Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, judges of the federal and district courts, foreign officials, and a small gathering of Philadelphians, the President offered…
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George Washington’s First Inaugural Address
Introduction The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice President because he received the second greatest…
Federalist No 85, Concluding Remarks
From MCLEAN’s Edition, New York Wednesday, May 28, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: ACCORDING to the formal division of the subject of these papers, announced in my first number, there would appear still to remain for discussion two points: “the analogy of the proposed government to your own State constitution,”…
Federalist No 84, Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections…
…to the Constitution Considered and Answered From McLEAN’s Edition, New York Wednesday, May 28, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it. There, however, remain…
Federalist No 83, The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury
From MCLEAN’s Edition, New York Wednesday, May 28, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: THE objection to the plan of the convention, which has met with most success in this State, and perhaps in several of the other States, is that relative to the want of a constitutional provision for the…