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George Washington and the Establishment of the Federal Government

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First  Edition©2020  Denver Brunsman

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Table of Contents

Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background
George Washington’s Annotated Copy of the Constitution in
the Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America . . . (1789)
William Maclay, Diary of President Washington’s Visit to the Senate,
August 22, 1789
George Washington, Letter from George Washington to
Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, January 9, 1790
George Washington, Letter from George Washington to the
Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, August 18, 1790
Alexander Hamilton, Opinion on the Constitutionality of Establishing
a National Bank, February 23, 1791
George Washington, Letter from George Washington
to Tobias Lear, April 12, 1791
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
Project Questions
Additional Assignments
Additional Resources for Research

Denver Brunsman

Denver Brunsman is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University, where his courses include “George Washington and His World,” taught annually at Mount Vernon. He is the author of The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World and the coauthor of Leading Change: George Washington and Establishing the Presidency, among other works.