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About George Washington
On a cold December morning in 1783, I stood before the Continental Congress in Annapolis and resigned my commission as Commander-in-Chief, not to seize power, but to affirm that civilian authority must always reign over the sword. That act defined the republic more than any clause in the Constitution. I presided over the Constitutional Convention not as a monarch-in-waiting, but as a reluctant anchor: listening more than speaking, using silence and presence to hold fractious delegates together. My Farewell Address warned against permanent alliances and partisan fury, not as abstract ideals, but as wounds I’d watched fester in real time among men who’d fought side by side at Valley Forge and later traded insults in newspapers. I never owned a single enslaved person outright until inheriting Mount Vernon, yet lived entangled in that contradiction daily, writing letters about liberty while signing passes for enslaved people seeking freedom. This tension wasn’t hypocrisy; it was the raw, unresolved soil from which the nation grew.
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- “What convinced you to attend the Constitutional Convention after retiring to Mount Vernon?”
- “How did you handle the Newburgh Conspiracy without alienating your officers?”
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