I would like to provide an analysis of George Washington’s Farewell Address from 1796. In doing so, I will focus on his wise counsel pertaining to the future of our country. I will look critically at his predictions and warnings in order to determine if America has stayed true to the vision of our founding father. Only then can we determine if we, as a nation, have lived up to the dream of our nation’s first president. Interestingly, Washington never gave his farewell address as a public speech.
Being the first man to act in his specific position of power, George Washington expectedly left office as the President of the United States of America with more issues in the nation than he started out with. While still solving significant matters with the help of congress under him, the weight of a country relying on your judgement could sometimes be too overbearing to handle. In 1796, the year Washington retired from office, he published his renowned “Farewell Address” in order to elaborate on his final concerns with the nations development, what Washington felt needed to be handled, and to give his people a sense of closure from his feedback from his two terms as President. Through Washington’s administration in his “Farewell Address”, he outlines the essential importance of the nation growing more strongly united in order to secure a more powerful American identity, identify the potential horrors of issues in the country from within, and ultimately to use the nations great unity to strengthen America’s foundation as a whole. While taking into consideration that America was built off of thirteen individual colonies striving to stand out among the rest, it is entirely understandable that each one would want to maintain their personal characteristics and successes.
Served in Virginia House of Burgesses (1774? 16yrs) IV. Presidential Term: (1789-1797) V. Issues of the Election: 1789 – One of the biggest difficulties was persuading Washington to run for president because he felt his calling was to a quiet life. Once he was convinced, the issue was that only 10 states participated in the election and George Washington received at least one of the two votes from each representative. John Adams, runner up, became Washington’s vice president.
Background: When the war between Britain and France broke out, the President Washington issued the "Declaration of neutrality", and in September 1796 he published the Farewell address declared the policy of United States non-interventionism. In the 19th century, President Thomas Jefferson extended Washington's ideas about foreign policy in his March 4, 1801 inaugural address. Jefferson said that one of the "essential principles of our government" is that of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Development: American Isolationism neutral foreign policy has experienced three stages: The first stage, from 1796, Washington the farewell address to 1823 the Monroe Doctrine published, isolationism neutral diplomacy is to get rid of the alliance, to defend the independence
Conservatives is political and social philosophy and support traditional social institution. For example, Republicans strongly trust the existing American court system and interpretation of laws from judges. Plus, they emphasize the importance of the primary and secondary educational system. In other words, the more education you have, then the more money you will be making. In National Defense, conservatives and Republicans hold the same view that the U.S. must maintain a strong military.
George Washington's Farewell Address To the People of the United States FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: 1 The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made. 2 I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both. 3 The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped, that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives, which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement, from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my
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