Three Points Of Washington's Farewell Address

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Washington's Advice on How to be a People “You should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immoveable attachment to your unity... discountenancing and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest” (Washington paragraph 9). “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government (Farewell paragraph 16). “The policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another” (Address paragraph 24). “Inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded” (Washington's Farewell Address paragraph 32). The entire address is filled with advice from Washington that would ensure a perfect lifestyle, but paragraphs 9, 16, 24, and 32, which the quotes above are from, are the ones that stood out the most to me. Nine is telling us how to keep together as a nation while dealing with internal and external (foreign and domestic) problems, while twenty-four shows some of the consequences of not following his guidance. Sixteen depicts how the Constitution should be upheld by the whole people and how the Government should be properly conducted. Last, thirty-two warns us about media abuse. Paragraph 9 starts out instantly by stating how dear unity is to a people. Without it, there is no Independence, tranquility, peace, safety, prosperity, or Liberty. Our harmony will be the aspect in our lives most targeted by those who wish to control them. As stated in the quote up above, we must be attached to our unity, look down and cast away any attempt to separate our people from one another. There are sacred ties that hold us together, and we must do all we can not to weaken them, but to sustain them in every way. Basically, being an inseparable nation is the best and only way to stand

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