🧵 THE FATHER OF AMERICA: What was the national vision of our greatest Commander-In-Chief, George Washington? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/TCODjc1Wa2

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Biographers write of George Washington as the father of the American nation. The truth in this sentiment lies not just at his post as Commander of the Continental Army, but in the fact that he shed all local disposition & colonial thought from his mind. He led in being national. pic.twitter.com/VzQjIhLaiJ

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Washington frequently referred to America as an infant Empire. His ambition was to connect all parts of the Union through both infrastructure & commerce, creating a unified & connected people. He saw foreign influence as the largest threat to its existence, from without & within. pic.twitter.com/6Tg0FNT6bh

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The experience of the Revolution showed our President the importance of many things. Internal improvements for movement of men, value of supplies & being able to manufacture them at home, & the inefficiencies of Continental Congress not acting with expediency to real threats. pic.twitter.com/n1jGrwCq6a

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In the same vein, he and others like Alexander Hamilton understood the Articles of Confederation & Perpetual Union to be too weak. An energetic Executive to move the wheels of government would be necessary. Their conception of independence was weighted to the national level. pic.twitter.com/9yOjF2P44k

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With the aid of John Adams, the “colossus of that debate” as Jefferson noted, the Constitution was put forth. Although seen as a compromise document between men who did not have had the same Continental thinking, Washington urged the nation to rally behind it as our best hope. pic.twitter.com/dEmqTEhL0v

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Opponents of the Constitution & the Federalists, apparently not having their own notions, called themselves the Anti-Federalists & eventually Democratic-Republicans, or Democrats. Their ideas of liberty were individualistic & heavily influenced by the French Revolution. pic.twitter.com/rLMfLVIVQo

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As President, Washington would clash with these men on a wide range of topics; the need for internal improvements, a navy to protect our interests, & the ability of the American government to enforce its sovereignty, in examples like the Whiskey Rebellion & prior Shays Rebellion. pic.twitter.com/6Oj72CJnyL

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Led by Jefferson, Democrats opposed to the Alien & Sedition Acts; acts preventing foreigners & citizens who subscribed to anarchist creeds of the French Revolution from manipulating our government. They introduced nullification in the form of the Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions. pic.twitter.com/nNJNFQfs18

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Disgusted by the nullification effort amid potential war with France, George Washington viewed it as attempted disunion. He wrote to influential Democrats including Patrick Henry, instructing him to think continentally. Henry promptly crossed the aisle & joined the Federalists. pic.twitter.com/hR8bqNDHML

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Washington died unexpectedly, when a sore throat became debilitating. The near unanimously popular man, who was the centerpiece to delivering our national sovereignty & independence, was now the first national grief of the American people. pic.twitter.com/TE8A02SmMl

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George Washington used his extraordinary willpower & mastery in statecraft to overcome incalculable odds, & breathe life into the American nation. Thinking only of his country & never of himself, our first President’s evergreen wisdom to posterity live on in his Farewell Address. pic.twitter.com/o23qz7P4Ew

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The sources I used for this thread can be found in:

George Washington volumes I & II, Constitution of the League of Nations – Henry Cabot Lodge

The Jeffersonian Democracy – John T. Morse

The Founders Archives George Washington Letters – George Washington

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